Theatre and the English Public from Reformation to Revolution
Title | Theatre and the English Public from Reformation to Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Katrin Beushausen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2018-04-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1316859398 |
This book presents new and overarching perspectives on the relationship between theatre and public from the Henrician Reformation through the interregnum to the Restoration, combining vivid case studies with discussion of theatre's continued importance in shaping the early modern public. Considered from the vantage point of theatre, the early modern public becomes visible as an unruly agent of political change, a force that authorities both feared and appealed to, and one that proved ultimately beyond control. It was through theatrical strategies that rulers and their opposition addressed the early modern public, and in turn it was theatre's public potential that shaped the development of the stage during the revolutionary years of the seventeenth century. In this volume, Katrin Beushausen examines sources including irreverent satirical pamphlets, regal spectacles, anti-theatrical polemic and visions of state theatres, casting new light on the development of the early modern public and theatre.
Theatre and the English Public from Reformation to Revolution
Title | Theatre and the English Public from Reformation to Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Katrin Beushausen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2018-04-05 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1107181453 |
The first study to systematically trace the impact of theatre on the emerging public of the early modern period.
Libels and Theater in Shakespeare's England
Title | Libels and Theater in Shakespeare's England PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Mansky |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2023-09-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 100936278X |
The first comprehensive history of libels in Elizabethan England, this interdisciplinary study traces the crime across law, literature, and culture, focusing especially on the theater. Ranging from Shakespeare to provincial pageantry, it provides a fresh account of early modern drama and the viral media ecosystem springing up around it.
Theatre and the English Public from Reformation to Revolution
Title | Theatre and the English Public from Reformation to Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Katrin Beushausen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2018-04-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1316856739 |
This book presents new and overarching perspectives on the relationship between theatre and public from the Henrician Reformation through the interregnum to the Restoration, combining vivid case studies with discussion of theatre's continued importance in shaping the early modern public. Considered from the vantage point of theatre, the early modern public becomes visible as an unruly agent of political change, a force that authorities both feared and appealed to, and one that proved ultimately beyond control. It was through theatrical strategies that rulers and their opposition addressed the early modern public, and in turn it was theatre's public potential that shaped the development of the stage during the revolutionary years of the seventeenth century. In this volume, Katrin Beushausen examines sources including irreverent satirical pamphlets, regal spectacles, anti-theatrical polemic and visions of state theatres, casting new light on the development of the early modern public and theatre.
Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts
Title | Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Reason |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 774 |
Release | 2022-04-05 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1000537986 |
The Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts represents a truly multi-dimensional exploration of the inter-relationships between audiences and performance. This study considers audiences contextually and historically, through both qualitative and quantitative empirical research, and places them within appropriate philosophical and socio-cultural discourses. Ultimately, the collection marks the point where audiences have become central and essential not just to the act of performance itself but also to theatre, dance, opera, music and performance studies as academic disciplines. This Companion will be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduates, as well as to theatre, dance, opera and music practitioners and performing arts organisations and stakeholders involved in educational activities.
The Theatre
Title | The Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1894 |
Genre | Actors |
ISBN |
Vol. for 1888 includes dramatic directory for Feb.-Dec.; vol. for 1889 includes dramatic directory for Jan.-May.
Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars
Title | Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars PDF eBook |
Author | Heidi Craig |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2023-02-28 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1009224034 |
Heidi Craig demonstrates how dramatic and theatrical activity paradoxically thrived during the English theatre closures, 1642-1660.