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The culture of playgoing in Shakespeare's England : a collaborative debate

Title: The culture of playgoing in Shakespeare's England : a collaborative debate / Anthony B. Dawson and Paul Yachnin.
Author: Dawson, Anthony B.
Publication: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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Additional Authors

Yachnin, Paul Edward, 1953-

Description

x, 215 pages; 24 cm

Summary

How was the experience of watching a play influenced by practices beyond the walls of the playhouse, and what were the broader social and historical implications of the culture of playgoing? The book sets out to answer such questions. Interested first in what happened within the playhouse itself, the authors focus on the person of the actor, on stage props, visual pleasure and audience behaviour. At the same time, their discussion moves outward to consider a range of cultural assumptions and practices - such as eucharistic controversy, prostitution, social mobility, iconoclasm, Renaissance optics, the formation of national memory, and the dissemination of news. Since the two authors have very different perspectives on these issues, they have chosen a unique format: rather than submerging their opposition, they have highlighted it. Their attacks and counter-attacks, as they contest each other's views in paired chapters, result in a lively and illuminating debate.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Paul Yachnin and Anthony B. Dawson -- Performance and participation / Anthony Dawson -- The populuxe theatre ; Eye to eye opposed / Paul Yachnin -- The distracted globe / Anthony Dawson -- Magical properties / Paul Yachnin -- Props, pleasure, and idolatry ; The arithmetic of memory / Anthony Dawson -- The house of fame / Paul Yachnin -- Afterword / Paul Yachnin and Anthony Dawson.

ISBN

0521800161
9780521800167

LCCN

00063003

OCLC

ocm44811880
44811880
SCSB-14645127

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library