Unruly audiences and the theater of control in early modern London:

"Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London explores the effects of audience riots on the dramaturgy of early modern playwrights, arguing that playwrights from Marlowe to Brome often used their plays to control the physical reactions of their audience. This study analyse...

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Main Author: Dunnum, Eric (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2020
Series:Studies in performance and early modern drama
Studies in performance and early modern drama
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Summary:"Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London explores the effects of audience riots on the dramaturgy of early modern playwrights, arguing that playwrights from Marlowe to Brome often used their plays to control the physical reactions of their audience. This study analyses how, out of anxiety that unruly audiences would destroy the nascent industry of professional drama in England, playwrights sought to limit the effect that their plays could have on the audience. They tried to construct playgoing through their drama in the hopes of creating a less-reactive, more pensive, and controlled playgoer. The result was the radical experimentation in dramaturgy that, in part, defines Renaissance drama. Written for scholars of Early Modern and Renaissance Drama and Theatre, Theatre History, and Early Modern and Renaissance History, this book calls for a new focus on the local economic concerns of the theatre companies as a way to understand the motivation behind the drama of early modern London"--
Item Description:Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Marquette University, 2011, titled Performing the audience : constructing playgoing in early modern drama
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 18, 2019)
Physical Description:1 online resource (264 pages)
ISBN:9781351252638
1351252631
9781351252645
135125264X
9781351252652
1351252658

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