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Authorship, Indebtedness, and the Children of the King's Revels.
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- Author(s): Cathcart, Charles
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SEL: Studies in English Literature (Johns Hopkins); Spring2005, Vol. 45 Issue 2, p357-374, 18p
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The article seeks to explore the double constraint of a peculiarly collaborative company ethos and of a general playwriting culture in which the acting company possessed the paramount responsibility for the script in the material that bounds the texts of plays performed by the Children of the King's Revels, tenants of the Whitefriars theater in 1607 and 1608. The playwriting practices of the Children of the King's Revels at Whitefriars were highly interactive and frequently collaborative. Yet the prologues of three of their plays show an uncontextualized use of the authorial "he."
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