Imagining the Audience in Early Modern Drama, 1558-1642 [electronic resource] /
Low, J.editor.
Myhill, N.editor.
This essay collection builds on the latest research on the topic of theatre audiences in early modern England. In broad terms, the project answers the question, 'How do we define the relationships between performance and audience?'.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction : audience and audiences / Nova Myhill and Jennifer A. Low -- Crowd control / Paul Menzer -- Taking the stage : spectators as spectacle in the Caroline private theaters / Nova Myhill -- The curious case of the two audiences : Thomas Dekker's Match me in London / Mark Bayer -- Door number three? time, space, and audience in The Menaechmi and The comedy of errors / Jennifer A. Low -- Audience as witness in Edward II / Meg F. Pearson -- Lord of thy presence : bodies, performance, and audience interpretation in Shakespeare's King John / Erika T. Lin -- Charismatic audience : a 1559 pageant / David M. Bergeron -- Audience, actors, and taking part in the revels/ Emma Rhatigan -- Bleared vision in The taming of the shrew / James Wells -- Fitzgrave's jewel : audience and anticlimax in Middleton and Shakespeare / Jeremy Lopez.
This essay collection builds on the latest research on the topic of theatre audiences in early modern England. In broad terms, the project answers the question, 'How do we define the relationships between performance and audience?'.
Theater-History.
Literature, Modern.
British literature.
Theater.
Theatre History.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Theatre and Performance Studies.