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1 online resource (273 pages) |
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Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama Ser |
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Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: the alterity of early modern audiences; Notes; 1 Audience response to performance: fear of riots, closures and unruly playgoers; I The unruly playgoer: riots and discipline in the playhouses; II Metadrama's role in the construction of playgoing; Notes; 2 Performance's response to audience: the relationship between audience, performance and reality; Testing performance, constructing failure; Staging success: constructing reality through stage utterances |
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The Duchess of Malfi and the discourse of marriageMarlowe and the discourse of politics; Epicene and the discourse of reputation; Notes; 3 Fictional audiences' responses to fictional performances: the didactic role of metadrama; I Positive exemplum: collapsing fictive and real audiences; II Negative exemplum: satirizing unruly playgoers; III Cultural assumptions about the link between naturalism, gender and audience response; IV Dramatic representations of female playgoers and naturalism; Notes; 4 Unstable texts, active readers; stable performances, non-reactiveplaygoers |
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I Early modern reading strategies: active readers and readers' actionsII Constructing readers and playgoers in The Antipodes and Eastward Ho!; III Constructing stable plays and unstable play texts by dramatizing legal texts; VI The playhouse's effort to stabilize performance: the effects of the non-reactive playgoer on the modes of dramatic production; Notes; 5 Anti-mimetic drama: performance's relationship to reality and the playgoer's interpretive agency; I Mimesis, interpretation and the self-referentiality of metadrama |
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II Stage-orations: constructing the play's relationship with reality through prologues, inductions and epilogues1 Denying any connection to reality: Lyly's play-as-dream trope; 2 Renaissance boilerplate: dislocating real people from fictional characters; 3 Complicating the play's relationship to reality: an anti-mimetic play couched in a mimetic play; Notes; Coda: return to Malfi: the secrecy of performance and the consequences of constructing playgoing; I The metadramatic finale; II The finale's double; III Malfi and Denmark: the cohesion of difference |
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IV Concluding remarks: the tyranny of HamletNotes; Bibliography; Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351252645 |
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135125264X |
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