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1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages) : illustrations |
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Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; A Note on Texts and Editions; List of Abbreviations; 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; 3.1 Playing to the People: Contesting Performances during the Civil Wars; 3.2 Theatres of State: Visions of Theatricality after Monarchy |
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3.3 Rehearsing Order: Change and Continuity in Interregnum Theatricality4 Playing with Prohibition: Discourses of Theatre during the Interregnum; 4.1 The Contested Stage: Territorializing the Theatre during the Civil Wars, 1642-1648; 4.2 The Theatre of Carnal Copulation: The Pleasures of the Page, 1649-1652; 4.3 Circumvention by Constraint: Reforming the Stage, Taming Theatricality, 1653-1659; Epilogue: Theatre and the English Public beyond the Restoration; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book presents new and overarching perspectives on the relationship between theatre and public from the Henrican 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Theater and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century
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Theater and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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Theater and society
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781316859391 |
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9781316850411 |
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1316859398 |
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1316850412 |
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