Theatrical convention and audience response in early modern drama:
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Main Author: Lopez, Jeremy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. Cambridge University Press 2003
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-233) and index
Preliminaries; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 "As it was acted to great applause": Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences and the physicality of response; CHAPTER 2 Meat, magic, and metamorphosis: on puns and wordplay; CHAPTER 3 Managing the aside; CHAPTER 4 Exposition, redundancy, action; CHAPTER 5 Disorder and convention; CHAPTER 6 Drama of disappointment: character and narrative in Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy; CHAPTER 7 Laughter and narrative in Elizabethan and Jacobean comedy; CHAPTER 8 Epilogue: Jonson and Shakespeare; Plays and editions cited
In this comprehensive survey of the diverse, theatrically vital formal conventions of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Lopez proposes that understanding the potential for theatrical failure - the way playwrights anticipated it and audiences responded to it - is crucial for understanding how the drama succeeded on the stage
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 239 pages)
ISBN:0511073879
0511073976
0511121148
0521820065
9780511073878
9780511073977
9780511121142
9780521820066

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