Early Responses to Renaissance Drama
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- Author: Charles Whitney, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Date Published: July 2009
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- isbn: 9780521117203
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It is often assumed that we can never know how the earliest audiences responded to the plays and playbooks of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and other Renaissance dramatists. In this study, old compilations of early modern dramatic allusions provide the surprising key to understanding pre-1660 reception. Whether or not it begins with powerful emotion, that reception creatively applies and appropriates the copious resources of drama for diverse purposes, lessons, and interests. Informed also by critical theory and historical research, this understanding reveals the significance of response to Tamburlaine and Falstaff as well as the importance of drama to Edmund Spenser, John Donne, John Milton, and many others. It makes possible the study of particular responses of women and of workers and contributes to the history of subjectivity, reading, civil society, and aesthetics, and demands a fresh view of dramatic production.
Read more- Focuses on the pre-1660 response to Renaissance drama, with the main example being Shakespeare; other primary texts under discussion include Tamburlaine and Dr Faustus
- Develops accounts of the responses of women and of workers to particular dramatic material, extending literary and cultural history into areas of vital importance
- Offers in-depth analyses of the role of theatre in the lives of individuals
Awards
- Winner of the 2008 Elizabeth Dietz Memorial Prize from Studies in English Literature for the best book in Early Modern Studies
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'We have good reason to put a high value on the few freshly published books that succeed in pushing out the boundaries of our knowledge.' Andrew Gurr, Ben Jonson Journal
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'One of the best books of the year …' Studies in English Literature
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- Date Published: July 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521117203
- length: 356 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.52kg
- contains: 8 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Tamburlaine, Sir John, and the Formation of Early Modern Reception:
1. Tamburlaine intervenes
2. Versions of Sir John
Part II. Audiences Entertaining Plays:
3. Playgoers in the Theatrum Mundi to 1617
4. Common understanders
5. Playgoing and play-reading gentlewomen
6. Jonson and Shakespeare: living monuments and public spheres
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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