ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The King’s Men is the acting company to which William Shakespeare (1564–1616) belonged for most of his career. Formerly known as the Lord Chamberlain’s Men during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, they became the King’s Men in 1603 when King James I ascended the throne and became the company’s patron.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lord Chamberlain’s Men, also called Chamberlain’s Men, a theatrical company with which William Shakespeare was intimately connected for most of his professional career as a dramatist. It was the most important company of players in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Globe Theatre you see today in London is the third Globe. The first opened in 1599 and was built by the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, the company that William Shakespeare wrote for and part-owned.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Lord Chamberlain’s Men was a company of actors, or a “playing company” (as it then would likely have been described), for which Shakespeare wrote during most of his career. Richard Burbage played most of the lead roles, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth.

Detailed explanation-5: -Their only rivals were The Admiral’s Men led by one of England’s finest actors Edward Alleyn. The Chamberlain’s Men played continuously in London from 1594-1603, taking only a short break in the autumn of 1597 to travel on a provincial tour. From 1603 onwards the company regularly toured each year.