San Antonio College Library

Traces the evolution of the Circle Repertory Company from its beginnings in 1969 to its fifteenth-anniversary year as a critically acclaimed off-Broadway theatrical institution in 1984.

This is the first complete history of the theatre company, created in 1594, which in 1603 became the King's Men. Shakespeare was at the heart of the team of players, who with their successors ran an operation that lasted until the theatres closed in 1642. During these forty-eight years they staged all of Shakespeare's plays, a number of Ben Jonson's, those of Thomas Middleton and John Webster, and almost all of the Beaumont and Fletcher canon. Andrew...