JOHN LOWIN AND THE ENGLISH THEATRE, 1603-1647. Acting and Cultural Politics on the Jacobean and Caroline Stage.

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A concise biography of John Lowin (1576-1659), a leader of the King's Men's Company and considered the greatest English actor of the seventeenth century. The author looks at Lowin's career in its socio-economic and political context, through close examinations of the relevant documentation of his activities in the King's Men's Company and analysis of Lowin's dramatic roles in less familiar plays of the period.