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Oliver Jones

The Queen’s Men on Tour

Performance by Travelling Companies in Vernacular Spaces in Early Modern England

The Queen’s Men were an all-star Elizabethan theatre company that between 1583 and 1603 toured the nation’s town halls, country houses and inn-yards, performing its plays in front of aldermen and aristocrats, schoolboys and royalty.

Prompted by the work of Scott McMillin and Sally-Beth MacLean and the Toronto-based Shakespeare and the Queen’s Men Project, my PhD research seeks to place the plays of the Queen’s Men in their original context. By using survey and digital reconstruction to study the Guildhall at Stratford-upon-Avon and introducing performance into the original playing space, I seek to understand the practical opportunities and limitations to performance presented by the hall, the ideology of social space and the manner in which it is used by performers, and early modern audience reception.

snapshot taken on lindisfarne beach, castle in background

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Oliver Jones
Department of Archaeology
The King's Manor, YO1 7EP
 
Department of Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media
Campus East, YO10 5GB