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Playing and playgoing in early modern England : actor, audience and performance
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"This edited collection of essays brings together leading scholars of early modern drama and playhouse culture to reflect upon the study of playing and playgoing in early modern England. With a par...
"This edited collection of essays brings together leading scholars of early modern drama and playhouse culture to reflect upon the study of playing and playgoing in early modern England. With a particular focus on the player-playgoer exchange as a site of dramatic meaning-making, Playing and Playgoing argues that the study of theatrical culture is crucial to the scholarly investigation of dramatic texts. Working with and reflecting upon approaches drawn from literary scholarship, theatre history, and performance studies, it seeks to advance the critical conversation on the interactions between: play-texts; performance spaces; the bodily, sensory and material experiences of the playhouse; and playgoers' responses to, and engagements with, the theatre. Through alternative methodological and theoretical approaches, previously unknown or overlooked evidence, and fresh questions asked of long-familiar materials, the volume offers a timely and significant intervention in the field of Shakespeare and early modern drama"--
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- Creator
- edited by Simon Smith, Emma Whipday
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022
- ©2022
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- 1 online resource
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- ISBNs
- 9781108773775, 9781108489058, 110877377X, 1108807461, 9781108807463, 9781108733328
- OCLC
- on1310345721, on1262692583
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Notes -- Part I Players -- Notes -- Chapter 1 Shakespeare's Motists -- Notes -- Chapter 2 'Thou Look'st Pale': Narrating Blanching and Blushing on the Early Modern Stage -- 'What, Pale Again?': Performing the Blanch -- 'You Make Her Blush': Performing the Blush -- 'Behold How Like a Maid She Blushes': Metatheatrical Complexions -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Emotions, Gesture, and Race in the Early Modern Playhouse
- Context: Early Modern Gestural Theory -- Passionating Gesture -- Early Modern Diversity and the Performance of Race -- Notes -- Chapter 4 The Girl Player, the Virgin Mary, and Romeo and Juliet -- Notes -- Part II Playgoers -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Playgoing, Apprenticeship, and Profit: Francis Quicksilver, Goldsmith, and Richard Meighen, Stationer -- Vice -- Redemption -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Rethinking Early Modern Playgoing, Pleasure, and Judgement -- Pleasure and Judgement -- When to Judge -- When Not to Judge -- Fragmentary Censure -- Conclusion -- Notes
- Chapter 7 'Art Hath an Enemie Cal'd Ignorance': The Prodigal Industry of Early Modern Playwrighting -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Early Modern Drama Out of Order: Chronology, Originality, and Audience Expectations -- 1587: Alphonsus and Tamburlaine -- 1594: 'Mahemet' and Tamburlaine -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part III Playhouses -- Notes -- Chapter 9 'Theatre' and 'Play+House': Naming Spaces in the Time of Shakespeare -- Introduction -- Theatre -- Playhouse -- House -- Play -- Play+House -- Conclusion -- Notes
- Chapter 10 '[T]hough Ram Alley Stinks with Cooks and Ale / Yet Say There's Many a Worthy Lawyer's Chamber / Butts upon Ram Alley': An Innsman Goes to the Playhouse -- Notes -- Chapter 11 Playing with the Audience in Othello -- Notes -- Chapter 12 'All Their Minds Transfigured So Together': The Imagination at the Elizabethan Playhouse -- 'Such a Wicked Imagination': Suspicion and Fear of the Imagination -- 'Reporting and Representing': Before the 'Imagine' Chorus -- 'Your Quicke Imaginations We Must Charme': The Emergence and Development of the 'Imagine' Chorus
- 'The Circumference of So Many Eares': Why Did the 'Imagine' Chorus Flourish? -- 'Let Us on Your Imaginary Forces Work': Shakespeare and the Collective Imagination -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index