Shakespeare and the Admiral's Men

For most of the 1590s, the Admiral''s Men were the main competitors of Shakespeare''s company in the London theatres. Not only did they stage old plays by dramatists such as Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd: their playwrights invented the genres of humours comedy (with An Humorous Day''s Mirth) and city comedy (with Englishmen for My Money), while other new plays such as A Knack to Know an Hones...