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Theatrical convention and audience response in early modern drama /
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 understand...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminaries; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 "As it was acted to great applause": Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences and the physicality of response; CHAPTER 2 Meat, magic, and metamorphosis: on puns and wordplay; CHAPTER 3 Managing the aside; CHAPTER 4 Exposition, redundancy, action; CHAPTER 5 Disorder and convention; CHAPTER 6 Drama of disappointment: character and narrative in Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy; CHAPTER 7 Laughter and narrative in Elizabethan and Jacobean comedy; CHAPTER 8 Epilogue: Jonson and Shakespeare; Plays and editions cited.