Politics, plague, and Shakespeare's theater : the Stuart years / Leeds Barroll.

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1991.

xiv, 249 pages ; 24 cm

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Blackwell N.A

Privileged biographies, marginal Shakespeare -- Shakespeare without King James -- Pestilence and the players -- Shakespeare after the first Stuart plague: 1604-1606 -- 1606: social confusion and creative concentration -- The problem of the later Shakespeare -- Playing in Lent: 1580-1613 -- Plague figures for Shakespeare's Stuart period: 1603-1610 -- The playing season at the London theaters -- The difficulty of dating Shakespeare's plays through internal evidence -- The date of Coriolanus.

Includes bibliographic references and index