Theatrical convention and audience response in early modern drama
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge, U.K.
Cambridge University Press
2003
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-233) and index Preliminaries; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 "As it was acted to great applause": Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences and the physicality of response; CHAPTER 2 Meat, magic, and metamorphosis: on puns and wordplay; CHAPTER 3 Managing the aside; CHAPTER 4 Exposition, redundancy, action; CHAPTER 5 Disorder and convention; CHAPTER 6 Drama of disappointment: character and narrative in Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy; CHAPTER 7 Laughter and narrative in Elizabethan and Jacobean comedy; CHAPTER 8 Epilogue: Jonson and Shakespeare; Plays and editions cited 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 239 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0511073879 0511073976 0511121148 0521820065 9780511073878 9780511073977 9780511121142 9780521820066 |