Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England: Actor, Audience and Performance

ISBN-13: 9781108489058 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 350 str.

Simon Smith; Emma Whipday

Opis

Offers a new, interdisciplinary account of early modern drama through the lens of playing and playgoing.

Spis treści

Introduction: Simon Smith and Emma Whipday; Part I. Players: Simon Smith and Emma Whipday; 1. Shakespeare's motists Natasha Korda; 2. 'Thou look'st pale': Narrating blanching and blushing on the early modern stage Emma Whipday; 3. Emotions, gesture and race in the early modern playhouse Farah Karim-Cooper; 4. The girl player, the virgin Mary and Romeo and Juliet Deanne Williams; Part II. Playgoers: Simon Smith and Emma Whipday; 5. Playgoing, apprenticeship and profit: Francis Quicksilver, Goldsmith and Richard Meighen, Stationer Lucy Munro; 6. Rethinking early modern playgoing, pleasure and judgement Simon Smith; 7. 'Art hath an enemie cal'd Ignorance': The prodigal industry of early modern playwrighting Jeremy Lopez; 8. Early modern drama out of order: Chronology, originality and audience expectations Eoin Price; Part III. Playhouses: Simon Smith and Emma Whipday; 9. 'Theatre' and 'Play+House': Naming spaces in the time of Shakespeare Tiffany Stern; 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 Jackie Watson; 11. Playing with the audience in Othello Stephen Purcell; 12. 'All their minds transfigured so together': The imagination at the Elizabethan playhouse Helen Hackett; Select Bibliography; Index.