Between 1603 and 1613, The Queen's Revels staged plays by Francis Beaumont, George Chapman, John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton, all of whom were at their most innovative when writing for this company. Combining theatre history and critical analysis, this study provides a history of the children's company, and an account of their repertory. It demonstrates the involvement in dramatic production of dramatists, shareholders, patrons, audiences and actors alike, and reappraises issues such as management, performance style and audience composition.

Introduction 1 
1 Raiding the nest: a company biography 13 
2 ‘Proper gallants wordes’: comedy and the theatre audience 55 
3 ‘Grief, and joy, so suddenly commixt’: company politics and the development of tragicomedy 96 
4 ‘Ieronimo in Decimo sexto’: tragedy and the text 134 
 

Lucy Munro is a lecturer in English at Keele University. She has edited Edward Sharpham's The Fleer and is a contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004), The Book of the Play in Early Modern England, ed. Marta Straznicky (forthcoming) and Writers of the English Renaissance, ed. Patrick Cheney, Andrew Hadfield and Garrett A. Sullivan (2004). She reviews regularly for The Times Literary Supplement, New Theatre Quarterly, Around the Globe, and The Year's Work in English Studies, and is a regular contributor to Smoke: A London Peculiar.

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