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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      12 April 2018
      05 April 2018
      ISBN:
      9781316850411
      9781107181458
      9781316632666
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316850411
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.64kg, 310 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.46kg, 314 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature
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    Book description

    This book presents new and overarching perspectives on the relationship between theatre and public from the Henrician Reformation through the interregnum to the Restoration, combining vivid case studies with discussion of theatre's continued importance in shaping the early modern public. Considered from the vantage point of theatre, the early modern public becomes visible as an unruly agent of political change, a force that authorities both feared and appealed to, and one that proved ultimately beyond control. It was through theatrical strategies that rulers and their opposition addressed the early modern public, and in turn it was theatre's public potential that shaped the development of the stage during the revolutionary years of the seventeenth century. In this volume, Katrin Beushausen examines sources including irreverent satirical pamphlets, regal spectacles, anti-theatrical polemic and visions of state theatres, casting new light on the development of the early modern public and theatre.

    Reviews

    '… this well-written book is a [must-read] to anyone interested in early modern theatricality, the English public, the Interregnum and their interactions.'

    Sonja Kleij Source: English

    '… the arguments at the heart of Theatre and the English Public are convincing, and the book as a whole successfully reframes debates about the relationship between theater and its publics.'

    Gavin Hollis Source: Renaissance Quarterly

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    Contents

    Contents
    • Prologue
      pp 1-26
    • Theatre, Theatricality and the Public in Early Modern England
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    • Chapter 1 - Styles of the Stage
      pp 27-79
    • Addressing the Public in the Post-Reformation Period
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