Title: Stages and playgoers
Description: "The tradition of direct address has little to do with the frequently touted notion of the "fluidity of the Renaissance stage": the point is not that stage characters can talk to the audience but that they actually do reach out to the playgoers and in so doing import aspects of the audience world to the stage. These exchanges appear frequently in late-medieval drama and continue to be crucial stage strategies for Shakespeare, in whose work they grow and change."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Drama, English Mysteries and miracle plays, English drama, History, History and criticism, Soliloquy, Stage history, Technique, Theater audiences, Monologue, Drama, technique, English drama, history and criticism, early modern and elizabethan, 1500-1600, English drama, history and criticism, 17th century, Soliloque, Theatre (Genre litteraire), Theatre anglais, Histoire et critique, Théâtre (Genre littéraire), Théâtre anglais
Places: England
People: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Time periods: 16th century, 17th century, Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600, To 1500, To 1625