Skip to content
Register Sign in Wishlist

Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England

£30.99

  • Date Published: October 2017
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781108438728

£ 30.99
Paperback

Add to cart Add to wishlist

Other available formats:
Hardback, eBook


Looking for an inspection copy?

This title is not currently available on inspection

Description
Product filter button
Description
Contents
Resources
Courses
About the Authors
  • Allison P. Hobgood tells a new story about the emotional experiences of theatregoers in Renaissance England. Through detailed case studies of canonical plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, Kyd and Heywood, the reader will discover what it felt like to be part of performances in English theatre and appreciate the key role theatregoers played in the life of early modern drama. How were spectators moved - by delight, fear or shame, for example - and how did their own reactions in turn make an impact on stage performances? Addressing these questions and many more, this book discerns not just how theatregoers were altered by drama's affective encounters, but how they were undeniable influences upon those encounters. Overall, Hobgood reveals a unique collaboration between the English world and stage, one that significantly reshapes the ways we watch, read and understand early modern drama.

    • Presents a lively and unconventional discussion of how playgoers transformed early modern English drama
    • Critiques the field's dominant theoretical approach – new historicism – by considering the feelings of early modern playgoers, motivating new debates about this previously avoided aspect of early modern theatre
    • Applies an interdisciplinary methodology, appealing to a wide range of readers interested in the history of affect, emotions, audiences and theatre
    Read more

    Customer reviews

    Not yet reviewed

    Be the first to review

    Review was not posted due to profanity

    ×

    , create a review

    (If you're not , sign out)

    Please enter the right captcha value
    Please enter a star rating.
    Your review must be a minimum of 12 words.

    How do you rate this item?

    ×

    Product details

    • Date Published: October 2017
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781108438728
    • length: 246 pages
    • dimensions: 230 x 153 x 13 mm
    • weight: 0.37kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction: pondering playgoers
    1. Fear-sickness in Macbeth
    2. Emotional afterlives in The Spanish Tragedy
    3. Hazarding homeopathy in A Woman Killed with Kindness
    4. Notorious abuses in Twelfth Night
    5. Jonson and the pleasure problem
    Coda: becoming selves
    Bibliography.

  • Author

    Allison P. Hobgood, Willamette University, Oregon
    Allison P. Hobgood is Assistant Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at Willamette University, Oregon. Her fields of interest are Shakespeare and early modern literature, disability studies, and women's and gender studies. She is co-editor with David H. Wood of Recovering Disability in Early Modern England (2013) and has published articles in journals including Shakespeare Bulletin and Disability Studies Quarterly. Recently, she contributed a chapter on early modern affect and Macbeth for Shakespearean Sensations (Cambridge, 2014).

Related Books

Sorry, this resource is locked

Please register or sign in to request access. If you are having problems accessing these resources please email lecturers@cambridge.org

Register Sign in
Please note that this file is password protected. You will be asked to input your password on the next screen.

» Proceed

You are now leaving the Cambridge University Press website. Your eBook purchase and download will be completed by our partner www.ebooks.com. Please see the permission section of the www.ebooks.com catalogue page for details of the print & copy limits on our eBooks.

Continue ×

Continue ×

Continue ×
warning icon

Turn stock notifications on?

You must be signed in to your Cambridge account to turn product stock notifications on or off.

Sign in Create a Cambridge account arrow icon
×

Find content that relates to you

Join us online

This site uses cookies to improve your experience. Read more Close

Are you sure you want to delete your account?

This cannot be undone.

Cancel

Thank you for your feedback which will help us improve our service.

If you requested a response, we will make sure to get back to you shortly.

×
Please fill in the required fields in your feedback submission.
×