Imagining spectatorship : from the mysteries to the Shakespearean stage /

Imagining spectatorship : from the mysteries to the Shakespearean stage /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	McGavin, John J., 1950- author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Description:	viii, 208 pages ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford textual perspectives Oxford textual perspectives.
Subject:	English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism. English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10805872

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Other authors / contributors:	Walker, Greg, 1959- author.
ISBN:	9780198768616 0198768613 9780198768623 0198768621
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Imagining Spectatorship offers a new discussion of how spectators witnessed early drama in the various spaces and places in which those works were performed. It combines broad historical and theoretical reflection with closely analysed case studies to produce a comprehensive account of the ways in which individuals encountered early drama, how they were cued to respond to it, and how we might think about those issues today. The book resists the conventional divide between "medieval" and "early modern" drama, using its focus on the spectators' experience to point connections and continuities across a diverse range of genres, such as processions and tourneys as well as scripted plays, pageants, and interludes; a variety of different venues, such as city streets, great halls, and playhouses, and a period of about 150 years to the Shakespearean stage of the 1590s and 1600s. It seeks to offer routes by which inferences about early spectatorship can be made despite the relative absence of personal testimony from the period"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

1. Spectatorial Turn: Witnessing Early English Drama from the York Cycle to Shakespeare
2. Tudor Household Drama: Beyond the Cognitive Turn
Case Studies
3. Figuring the Spectator: The Entertainments at Carew Castle and Wisdom
4. Staging Revelation: Virtuous and Godly Susanna, John Bale, and the Chester Antichrist
5. Watching The Three Estates.