Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater: Stage Spectacle and Audience Response

ISBN-13: 9781009225151 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

New York) Robertson Lauren (Columbia University

Opis

Lauren Robertson shows how the commercial theater transformed early modernity's crisis of uncertainty into spectacular onstage display.

Recenzje

'Lauren Robertson gives us an original and brilliantly compelling account of the provocations and pleasures of audience uncertainty in early modern English theatrical culture. Alert to a wide range of philosophical, historical, and performative concerns, she offers fascinating discussions of the evolving interplay between dramatic representation and spectatorial engagement within the commercial repertory from its Elizabethan beginnings with Marlowe, Kyd, and Shakespeare to its Jacobean and Caroline developments in Jonson, Middleton, Ford, and Massinger. Her readings are unfailingly perceptive – often arresting in their acuity and persuasive vigor – and the attention she devotes to the doubts and interpretive challenges faced by playgoers is exhilarating in its imaginative reach. This is a book not only for Shakespeareans and scholars of early modern drama but for all serious students and lovers of theater.' William Hamlin, Washington State University

Spis treści

Part I. Dramatic Action: 1. Bodies; 2. Time; Part II. Playhouse Structure: 3. Props; 4. Space; Part III. Theater History: 5. Audience.