Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London

ISBN-13: 9781032177205 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 272 str.

Eric Dunnum

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Alterity of Early Modern Audiences

Chapter 1: Audience Response to Performance: Fear of Riots, Closures and Unruly Playgoers

Chapter 2: Performance’s Response to Audience: The Relationship among Audience, Performance and Reality

Chapter 3: Fictional Audience’s Responses to Fictional Performances: The Didactic Role of Metadrama

Chapter 4: Unstable Texts, Active Readers; Stable Performances, Non-Reactive Playgoers

Chapter 5: Anti-Mimetic Drama: Performance’s Relationship to Reality and the Playgoer’s Interpretive Agency

Coda: Return to Malfi: The Secrecy of Performance and the Consequences of Constructing Playgoing

O autorze

Eric Dunnum is an Assistant Professor of English at Campbell University.