Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. "All write Playes" -- Chapter 1. "Mayn't a spectator write a comedy?": The Early Modern Idea of Playgoers as Playmakers -- Chapter 2. "Some other may be added": Playwriting Playgoers Revising in Their Manuscripts -- Chapter 3. "As shall be shewed before the daye of action": Playwriting Playgoers and Performance -- Chapter 4. "Watching every word": Playwriting Playgoers as Verse Dramatists -- Conclusion. "I began to make a play" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
Playwriting Playgoers in Shakespeare's Theater shows how the rise of England's first commercialized culture industry also gave rise to the first generation of participatory consumers and their attempts to engage with mainstream culture by writing early modern ""fan fiction.""