Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England

Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England examines the emotional effect of stage performance on the minds of the early modern theatre audience.

List 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.

About the author

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).

Summary

How were early modern playgoers emotionally moved by theatre performances, and how did their reactions in turn influence the stage? Through detailed case studies of canonical plays by Shakespeare, Jonson and others, Allison P. Hobgood tells a new story of emotional encounters between playgoers and the Renaissance stage.

Product details

• Authors: Allison P. Hobgood, Allison P. (Willamette University Hobgood, HOBGOOD ALLISON P.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781108438728
• ISBN: 978-1-108-43872-8
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, DRAMA / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: general, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights