Description: Features an updated introduction analysing recent critical and performance interpretations, and a revised reading list.
Brief description: Andrew Gurr is Professor Emeritus at the University of Reading, and for the past thirty years has been Director of Research in London for the Globe Theatre. His books include The Shakespearean Stage 1574-1642 (Cambridge, 4th edition, 2009), The Shakespearian Playing Companies (1996), Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres (with Mariko Ichikawa, 2000), Playgoing in Shakespeare's London (Cambridge, 2004), The Shakespeare Company 1594-1642 (Cambridge, 2010), Shakespeare's Opposites: The Admiral's Company, 1594-1625 (Cambridge, 2012) and Shakespeare's Workplace: Essays on Shakespearean Theatre (Cambridge, 2017). He has also edited the New Cambridge Shakespeare edition of King Henry V.