Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London: Controlling the Unruly Playgoer in Early Modern Drama (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama)

Synopsis

Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London explores the effects of audience riots on the dramaturgy of early modern playwrights, arguing that playwrights from Marlowe to Brome often used their plays to control the physical reactions of their audience. This study analyses how, out of anxiety that unruly audiences would destroy the nascent industry of professional drama in England, playwrights sought to limit the effect that their plays could have on the audience. They tried to construct playgoing through their drama in the hopes of creating a less-reactive, more pensive, and controlled playgoer. The result was the radical experimentation in dramaturgy that, in part, defines Renaissance drama. Written for scholars of Early Modern and Renaissance Drama and Theatre, Theatre History, and Early Modern and Renaissance History, this book calls for a new focus on the local economic concerns of the theatre companies as a way to understand the motivation behind the drama of early modern London.

Copyright:

2020

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781351252638

Related ISBNs:

9781351252652, 9780815369332, 9780815369332

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

02/20/20

Copyrighted By:

Eric Dunnum

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Drama, Plays and Theater

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