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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jeremy Lopez |
| ISBN: | 0521820065 9780521820066 |
| OCLC Number: | 50149690 |
| Description: | viii, 239 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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 -- 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. |
| Responsibility: | Jeremy Lopez. |
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Abstract:
"This book gives a detailed and comprehensive survey of the diverse, theatrically vital formal conventions of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Besides providing new readings of plays such as Hamlet, Othello, Merchant of Venice, and Titus Andronicus, it also places Shakespeare emphatically within his own theatrical context, insisting on his identity as just one of many working playwrights, and focusing on the relationship between the extremely demanding repertory system of the time and the conventions and content of the plays. Lopez argues that the limitations of the relatively bare stage and non-naturalistic mode of early modern theatre would have made the potential for failure very great, and he proposes that understanding this potential for failure - the way playwrights anticipated it and audiences responded to it - is crucial for understanding the way in which the drama succeeded on state. The book offers new perspectives on familiar conventions such as the pun, the aside, and the expository speech; and it works toward a definition of early modern theatrical genres based on the relationship between these well-known conventions and the incoherent experience of early modern theatrical narratives."--Jacket.
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- English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.
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- Théâtre anglais -- 17e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
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- Toneel.
- Publiek.
- Drama.
- Aufführung.
- Geschichte 1585-1630.
- Englisch.
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