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Author Pangallo, Matteo A

Title Playwriting Playgoers in Shakespeare's Theater
Published University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2017-08-22 00:00:00.0

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Contents 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.""
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Dramatists, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
Theater audiences -- England -- History -- 16th century
Theater audiences -- England -- History -- 17th century
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism
Amateurism.
amateurism.
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance
Amateurism
Dramatists, English -- Early modern
English drama
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan
Theater audiences
England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0812294254
9780812294255