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Theatrical convention and audience response in early modern drama /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Theatrical convention and audience response in early modern drama // Jeremy Lopez.
remainder title:	Theatrical Convention & Audience Response in Early Modern Drama
Author:	Lopez, Jeremy,
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 239 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	English drama - History and criticism. - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483714
ISBN:	9780511483714 (ebook)

Theatrical convention and audience response in early modern drama /
Lopez, Jeremy,

Theatrical convention and audience response in early modern drama /Theatrical Convention & Audience Response in Early Modern DramaJeremy Lopez. - 1 online resource (viii, 239 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

1. "As it was acted to great applause": Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences and the physicality of response -- 2. Meat, magic, and metamorphosis: on puns and wordplay -- 3. Managing the aside -- 4. Exposition, redundancy, action -- 5. Disorder and convention -- 6. Drama of disappointment: character and narrative in Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy -- 7. Laughter and narrative in Elizabethan and Jacobean comedy -- 8. Epilogue: Jonson and Shakespeare.

This book gives a detailed and comprehensive survey of the diverse, theatrically vital formal conventions of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Besides providing readings of plays such as Hamlet, Othello, Merchant of Venice, and Titus Andronicus, it also places Shakespeare emphatically within his own theatrical context, and focuses on the relationship between the demanding repertory system of the time and the conventions and content of the plays. Lopez argues that the limitations of the relatively bare stage and non-naturalistic mode of early modern theatre would have made the potential for failure very great, and he proposes that understanding this potential for failure is crucial for understanding the way in which the drama succeeded on stage. The book offers perspectives on familiar conventions such as the pun, the aside and the expository speech; and it works toward a definition of early modern theatrical genres based on the relationship between these well-known conventions and the incoherent experience of early modern theatrical narratives.

ISBN: 9780511483714 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

559694
English drama
--History and criticism.--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600

LC Class. No.: PR658.A88 / L67 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 822/.309

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