Theatrical Convention And Audience Response In Early Modern Drama

Author : Jeremy Lopez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511073878
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatrical Convention and Audience Response in Early Modern Drama written by Jeremy Lopez and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive survey of the diverse, theatrically vital formal conventions of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Lopez proposes that understanding the potential for theatrical failure - the way playwrights anticipated it and audiences responded to it - is crucial for understanding how the drama succeeded on the stage.

Author : Matthew Steggle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351922998
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laughing and Weeping in Early Modern Theatres written by Matthew Steggle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Shakespeare's original audiences weep? Equally, while it seems obvious that they must have laughed at plays performed in early modern theatres, can we say anything about what their laughter sounded like, about when it occurred, and about how, culturally, it was interpreted? Related to both of these problems of audience behaviour is that of the stage representation of laughing, and weeping, both actions performed with astonishing frequency in early modern drama. Each action is associated with a complex set of non-verbal noises, gestures, and cultural overtones, and each is linked to audience behaviour through one of the axioms of Renaissance dramatic theory: that weeping and laughter on stage cause, respectively, weeping and laughter in the audience. This book is a study of laughter and weeping in English theatres, broadly defined, from around 1550 until their closure in 1642. It is concerned both with the representation of these actions on the stage, and with what can be reconstructed about the laughter and weeping of theatrical audiences themselves, arguing that both actions have a peculiar importance in defining the early modern theatrical experience.

Author : Jeremy Lopez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107030579
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing the Canon of Early Modern Drama written by Jeremy Lopez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through short, provocative readings of unfamiliar plays, this book provides the first ever history of the canon of Renaissance drama.

Author : Jeremy Lopez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139436678
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatrical Convention and Audience Response in Early Modern Drama written by Jeremy Lopez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-12-05 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a detailed and comprehensive survey of the diverse, theatrically vital formal conventions of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Besides providing readings of plays such as Hamlet, Othello, Merchant of Venice, and Titus Andronicus, it also places Shakespeare emphatically within his own theatrical context, and focuses on the relationship between the demanding repertory system of the time and the conventions and content of the plays. Lopez argues that the limitations of the relatively bare stage and non-naturalistic mode of early modern theatre would have made the potential for failure very great, and he proposes that understanding this potential for failure is crucial for understanding the way in which the drama succeeded on stage. The book offers perspectives on familiar conventions such as the pun, the aside and the expository speech; and it works toward a definition of early modern theatrical genres based on the relationship between these well-known conventions and the incoherent experience of early modern theatrical narratives.

Author : Lauren Robertson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100922512X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater written by Lauren Robertson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lauren Robertson's original study shows that the theater of Shakespeare and his contemporaries responded to the crises of knowledge that roiled through early modern England by rendering them spectacular. Revealing the radical, exciting instability of the early modern theater's representational practices, Robertson uncovers the uncertainty that went to the heart of playgoing experience in this period. Doubt was not merely the purview of Hamlet and other onstage characters, but was in fact constitutive of spectators' imaginative participation in performance. Within a culture in the midst of extreme epistemological upheaval, the commercial theater licensed spectators' suspension among opposed possibilities, transforming dubiety itself into exuberantly enjoyable, spectacular show. Robertson shows that the playhouse was a site for the entertainment of uncertainty in a double sense: its pleasures made the very trial of unknowing possible.

Author : Eric Dunnum
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351252631
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London written by Eric Dunnum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. This study analyses how, out of anxiety that unruly audiences would destroy the nascent industry of professional drama in England, playwrights sought to limit the effect that their plays could have on the audience. They tried to construct playgoing through their drama in the hopes of creating a less-reactive, more pensive, and controlled playgoer. The result was the radical experimentation in dramaturgy that, in part, defines Renaissance drama. Written for scholars of Early Modern and Renaissance Drama and Theatre, Theatre History, and Early Modern and Renaissance History, this book calls for a new focus on the local economic concerns of the theatre companies as a way to understand the motivation behind the drama of early modern London.

Author : Douglas Bruster
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134313713
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prologues to Shakespeare's Theatre written by Douglas Bruster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable study shows how prologues ushered audience and actors through a rite of passage and how they can be seen to offer rich insight into what the early modern theatre was thought capable of achieving.

Author : J. Low
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230118399
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining the Audience in Early Modern Drama, 1558-1642 written by J. Low and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay collection builds on the latest research on the topic of theatre audiences in early modern England. In broad terms, the project answers the question, 'How do we define the relationships between performance and audience?'.

Author : Richard Preiss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107036577
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clowning and Authorship in Early Modern Theatre written by Richard Preiss and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Preiss presents a lively and provocative study of how the ever-popular stage clown shaped early modern playhouse theatre.

Author : Jeremy Lopez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137072741
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richard II written by Jeremy Lopez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-25 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook provides an introductory guide to Richard II offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, contextual documents, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of three or four key performances and productions, a survey of film and TV adaptations, a wide sampling of critical opinion and further reading.