Theatrical convention and audience response in early modern drama /

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Author / Creator:	Lopez, Jeremy.
Imprint:	Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 239 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism. Theater audiences -- England -- History -- 16th century. Theater audiences -- England -- History -- 17th century. English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism. Theater -- England -- History -- 16th century. Theater -- England -- History -- 17th century. English drama. English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan. Theater. Theater audiences. England. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11132239

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ISBN:	0511073976 9780511073977 0521820065 9780521820066 0511073879 9780511073878 0511121148 9780511121142 1280162538 9781280162534 9780511483714 0511483716 9780521032834 1107136091 9781107136090 0511330405 9780511330407 1139148834 9781139148832 0511073798 9780511073793
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-233) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	In this comprehensive survey of the diverse, theatrically vital formal conventions of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Lopez proposes that understanding the potential for theatrical failure - the way playwrights anticipated it and audiences responded to it - is crucial for understanding how the drama succeeded on the stage.
Other form:	Print version: Lopez, Jeremy. Theatrical convention and audience response in early modern drama. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 0521820065

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I.
1. 'As it was acted to great applause': Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences and the physicality of response
2. Meat, magic and metamorphosis: on puns and wordplay
3. Managing the aside
4. Exposition, redundancy, action
5. Disorder and convention
Part II. Introduction to part II
6. Drama of disappointment: character and narrative in Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy
7. Laughter and narrative in Elizabethan and Jacobean comedy
8. Epilogue: Jonson and Shakespeare
Plays and editions cited
Works cited
Index

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