Siobhan Keenan is a Senior Lecturer at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.

It's hard to imagine a better modern introduction to the commercial and artistic business of theatre in the early modern period than Siobhan Keenan's Acting Companies and their Plays in Shakespeare's London. [...] The book is well structured to combine survey and analysis, and a case study in each chapter develops its key findings in more depth.

• AcknowledgementsTextual NoteList of AbbreviationsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: The Acting CompaniesChapter 3: Playwrights and PlaywritingChapter 4: Stages and StagingChapter 5: AudiencesChapter 6: Patrons and PatronageEpilogueNotesBibliography

Siobhan Keenan is a Senior Lecturer at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.

It's hard to imagine a better modern introduction to the commercial and artistic business of theatre in the early modern period than Siobhan Keenan's Acting Companies and their Plays in Shakespeare's London. [...] The book is well structured to combine survey and analysis, and a case study in each chapter develops its key findings in more depth.

• AcknowledgementsTextual NoteList of AbbreviationsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: The Acting CompaniesChapter 3: Playwrights and PlaywritingChapter 4: Stages and StagingChapter 5: AudiencesChapter 6: Patrons and PatronageEpilogueNotesBibliography