Upstart Crow

Duncan‐Jones, Katherine

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“…Given Chapman's increasing prominence as the 'rival poet' of the Sonnets at the turn of the century, 47 48 Well, yes and no. As Chambers details, Thomas Dekker supplied a gruelling account of the Bear Garden in 1609 ('Paris Garden an Image of hell'), in which 'a blind bear was tied to the stake, and instead of baiting him with dogs, a company of creatures that had the shapes of men, and faces of Christians .…”

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Shakespeare and the Three Bears

Somogyi¹

2011

New Theatre Quarterly

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Recent researchers into the documentary evidence of Shakespeare's professional life as a writer–performer have understandably restricted themselves to his human fellows and rivals. But on Bankside in the 1590s bear-baiting vied for popularity with theatre, and in this article, Nick de Somogyi seeks to correct a long-standing error of naming among the celebrity fighting bears of Paris Garden – stabled some hundred yards west of the Globe. Scholars are agreed that the careers of George Stone, Harry Hunks, and the great Sackerson competed for attention with the dramatist's own. But while Sackerson's is the only contemporary name Shakespeare ever dropped in his plays, and while George Stone probably expired in the same season as witnessed the premiere of Macbeth, it is argued here that the only scholarly basis for the existence of ‘the famous Harry Hunks’ lies in the erratic contemporary punctuation of a single poem. A Contributing Editor to NTQ, Nick de Somogyi gained his PhD at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and is now an independent scholar and textual consultant. He was the founder editor of the Globe Quartos series for Nick Hern Books, and The Winter's Tale, the eighteenth play in his Shakespeare Folios series (with Simon Trussler) appeared in early 2011. He curated three successive exhibitions at Shakespeare's Globe (2003–5), contributed to the National Portrait Gallery's Searching for Shakespeare exhibition (2006), and is the author of Shakespeare's Theatre of War (1998) and Shakespeare on Theatre (2011). This is the first in a series of pieces on the relationship between playhouse and beargarden he is currently researching.

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Section: Old Harry's Gamementioning

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Shakespeare and the Three Bears

Somogyi¹

2011

New Theatre Quarterly

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Upstart Crow

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