Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater - Stage Spectacle and Audience Response

"At the same time as it demonstrates how the theater transformed early modernity's crisis of uncertainty into stage spectacle, this book supplies a new account of early modern theatrical experience, one that is informed by the period's culture of playgoing and material conditions of performance"--

List of contents

Part I. Dramatic Action: 1. Bodies; 2. Time; Part II. Playhouse Structure: 3. Props; 4. Space; Part III. Theater History: 5. Audience.

About the author

Lauren Robertson is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her articles and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Shakespeare Studies, Renaissance Drama, Theatre Journal, and Shakespeare Quarterly.

Summary

At the same time as it demonstrates how the theater transformed early modernity's crisis of uncertainty into stage spectacle, this book supplies a new account of early modern theatrical experience, one that is informed by the period's culture of playgoing and material conditions of performance.

Foreword

Lauren Robertson shows how the commercial theater transformed early modernity's crisis of uncertainty into spectacular onstage display.

Product details

• Authors: Lauren Robertson, Lauren (Columbia University Robertson, Robertson Lauren
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781009225151
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0922515-1
• No. of pages: 290
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literature: history and criticism, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean