Theatre and the English Public From Reformation to Revolution

The first study to systematically trace the impact of theatre on the emerging public of the early modern period.

List of contents

Prologue: theatre, theatricality and the public in early modern England; 1. Styles of the stage: addressing the public in the post-reformation period; 2. From audience to public: theatre, theatricality and the people before the Civil Wars; 3. Public performances: strategies of theatricality during the interregnum; 4. Playing with prohibition: discourses of theatre during the interregnum; Epilogue: theatre and the English public beyond the Restoration.

About the author

Katrin Beushausen is an independent historian and theatre scholar, and an affiliate of the Freie Universität Berlin, where she has taught on theatricality, political performance and theatrical publics. Parallel to her academic career, she works as a political campaigner and explores the relation between theatre and the public through site-specific performance projects in the public sphere.

Summary

Provides fresh perspectives on the early modern public as an audience trained by theatre. Focusing on the period 1642–1660, it offers a new take on the public of the English Revolution and fills in important blanks in the history of the English stage for theatre and literary scholars and historians.

Product details

• Authors: Katrin Beushausen, Katrin (Freie Universitat Berlin) Beushausen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781107181458
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18145-8
• No. of pages: 310
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; England, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: plays and playwrights