Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Old and New Comedy
- An Approach to Shakespearian Comedy
- Shakespeare, Molière, and the Comedy of Ambiguity
- Comic Structure and Tonal Manipulation in Shakespeare and Some Modern Plays
- Laughing with the Audience: ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’ and the Popular Tradition
- Shakespearian and Jonsonian Comedy
- Two Magian Comedies: ‘The Tempest’ and ‘The Alchemist’
- ‘Thou that beget’st him that did thee beget’: Transformation in ‘Pericles’ and ‘The Winter’s Tale’
- The Words of Mercury
- Why Does it End Well? Helena, Bertram, and The Sonnets
- Some Dramatic Techniques in ‘The Winter’s Tale’
- Clemency, Will, and Just Cause in ‘Julius Caesar’
- Thomas Bull and other ‘English Instrumentalists’ in Denmark in the 1580s
- Shakespeare in the Early Sydney Theatre
- The Reason Why: The Royal Shakespeare Season 1968
- The Year's Contributions to Shakespearian Study 1 Critical Studies
- 2 Shakespeare’s Life, Times and Stage
- 3 Textual Studies
- Index
- Plate Section
Thomas Bull and other ‘English Instrumentalists’ in Denmark in the 1580s
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2007
- Frontmatter
- Old and New Comedy
- An Approach to Shakespearian Comedy
- Shakespeare, Molière, and the Comedy of Ambiguity
- Comic Structure and Tonal Manipulation in Shakespeare and Some Modern Plays
- Laughing with the Audience: ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’ and the Popular Tradition
- Shakespearian and Jonsonian Comedy
- Two Magian Comedies: ‘The Tempest’ and ‘The Alchemist’
- ‘Thou that beget’st him that did thee beget’: Transformation in ‘Pericles’ and ‘The Winter’s Tale’
- The Words of Mercury
- Why Does it End Well? Helena, Bertram, and The Sonnets
- Some Dramatic Techniques in ‘The Winter’s Tale’
- Clemency, Will, and Just Cause in ‘Julius Caesar’
- Thomas Bull and other ‘English Instrumentalists’ in Denmark in the 1580s
- Shakespeare in the Early Sydney Theatre
- The Reason Why: The Royal Shakespeare Season 1968
- The Year's Contributions to Shakespearian Study 1 Critical Studies
- 2 Shakespeare’s Life, Times and Stage
- 3 Textual Studies
- Index
- Plate Section
Summary
E. K. Chambers gives a list of Elizabethan actors which includes the following:
BULL, THOMAS, Denmark, 1579-80
KIRCK (KIRCKMANN), JOHN, Denmark, 1579-80
KRAFFT, JOHN, Denmark, 1579-80
PERSONN, JOHANN, Denmark, 1579-80
E. Nungezer adds that these actors were members of a troupe of English players at the Danish court and gives as source an article by Johannes Bolte.
These players were first recognized by V. C. Ravn, who pieced together information in the Rentemester Regnskaber (R.R.) - account books of the receiver of the Revenue-and in the associated Maaneds og Kostpenge Registeret (Kp.R.) - the register of monthly wages and boardwages. These are now in Rigsarkivet in Copenhagen.
This paper is based on a new study of these documents and of other available sources which yield some supplementary information concerning these and other supposedly English artists at the court of Frederick II. A full account is also given of the fate of one of them, Thomas Bull, which is not without human interest.
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- Shakespeare Survey , pp. 119 - 124Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1970