Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England
Actor, Audience and Performance
Published on 29. February 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
308 pages
978-1-108-73332-8 (ISBN)
Description
This edited collection of essays brings together leading scholars of early modern drama and playhouse culture to reflect upon the study of playing and playgoing in early modern England. With a particular focus on the player-playgoer exchange as a site of dramatic meaning-making, this book offers a timely and significant critical intervention in the field of Shakespeare and early modern drama. Working with and reflecting upon approaches drawn from literary scholarship, theatre history and performance studies, it seeks to advance the critical conversation on the interactions between: players; play-texts; performance spaces; the bodily, sensory and material experiences of the playhouse; and playgoers' responses to, and engagements with, the theatre. Through alternative methodological and theoretical approaches, previously unknown or overlooked evidence, and fresh questions asked of long-familiar materials, the volume offers a new account of early modern drama and performance that seeks to set the agenda for future research and scholarship.
Reviews / Votes
'Collectively the essays assembled by Smith and Whipday are creative and energetic, gesturing towards interesting new ways to explore the relationship between playing and playgoing that builds on and extends recent trends in the field.' David McInnis, Early TheatreMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
449 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-73332-8 (9781108733328)
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Simon Smith | Emma Whipday
Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England
Actor, Audience and Performance
Book
03/2022
Cambridge University Press
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Content
Introduction: Simon Smith and Emma Whipday; Part I. Players: Simon Smith and Emma Whipday; 1. Shakespeare's motists Natasha Korda; 2. 'Thou look'st pale': Narrating blanching and blushing on the early modern stage Emma Whipday; 3. Emotions, gesture and race in the early modern playhouse Farah Karim-Cooper; 4. The girl player, the virgin Mary and Romeo and Juliet Deanne Williams; Part II. Playgoers: Simon Smith and Emma Whipday; 5. Playgoing, apprenticeship and profit: Francis Quicksilver, Goldsmith and Richard Meighen, Stationer Lucy Munro; 6. Rethinking early modern playgoing, pleasure and judgement Simon Smith; 7. 'Art hath an enemie cal'd Ignorance': The prodigal industry of early modern playwrighting Jeremy Lopez; 8. Early modern drama out of order: Chronology, originality and audience expectations Eoin Price; Part III. Playhouses: Simon Smith and Emma Whipday; 9. 'Theatre' and 'Play+House': Naming spaces in the time of Shakespeare Tiffany Stern; 10. '[T]hough Ram Alley stinks with cooks and ale / Yet say there's many a worthy lawyer's chamber / Butts upon Ram Alley': An Innsman goes to the playhouse Jackie Watson; 11. Playing with the audience in Othello Stephen Purcell; 12. 'All their minds transfigured so together': The imagination at the Elizabethan playhouse Helen Hackett; Select Bibliography; Index.