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Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater: Stage Spectacle and Audien
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
1009225154
ISBN-13
9781009225151
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11057239797
Product Key Features
Book Title
Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater : Stage Spectacle and Audience Response
Number of Pages
X, 258 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Topic
European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2022-025446
Reviews
'Lauren Robertson extends the conversation about early modern staging conventions in provocative new ways. Beyond the practicalities and social functions of staging practices she investigates their psychological dynamics. Within her critical framework, perception in theatrical performance is a matter of expectations on the spectators' part - expectations that she argues were challenged in commercially successful play scripts, resulting in a state of uncertainty that spectators loved to experience and were willing to pay for again and again. The broad historical sweep of the book turns Caroline drama into a climax rather than an afterthought.' Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California, 'Lauren Robertson gives us an original and brilliantly compelling account of the provocations and pleasures of audience uncertainty in early modern English theatrical culture. Alert to a wide range of philosophical, historical, and performative concerns, she offers fascinating discussions of the evolving interplay between dramatic representation and spectatorial engagement within the commercial repertory from its Elizabethan beginnings with Marlowe, Kyd, and Shakespeare to its Jacobean and Caroline developments in Jonson, Middleton, Ford, and Massinger. Her readings are unfailingly perceptive - often arresting in their acuity and persuasive vigor - and the attention she devotes to the doubts and interpretive challenges faced by playgoers is exhilarating in its imaginative reach. This is a book not only for Shakespeareans and scholars of early modern drama but for all serious students and lovers of theater.' William Hamlin, Washington State University
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
822.309
Table Of Content
Part I. Dramatic Action: 1. Bodies; 2. Time; Part II. Playhouse Structure: 3. Props; 4. Space; Part III. Theater History: 5. Audience.
Synopsis
At the same time as it demonstrates how the theater transformed early modernity's crisis of uncertainty into stage spectacle, this book supplies a new account of early modern theatrical experience, one that is informed by the period's culture of playgoing and material conditions of performance., Lauren Robertson's original study shows that the theater of Shakespeare and his contemporaries responded to the crises of knowledge that roiled through early modern England by rendering them spectacular. Revealing the radical, exciting instability of the early modern theater's representational practices, Robertson uncovers the uncertainty that went to the heart of playgoing experience in this period. Doubt was not merely the purview of Hamlet and other onstage characters, but was in fact constitutive of spectators' imaginative participation in performance. Within a culture in the midst of extreme epistemological upheaval, the commercial theater licensed spectators' suspension among opposed possibilities, transforming dubiety itself into exuberantly enjoyable, spectacular show. Robertson shows that the playhouse was a site for the entertainment of uncertainty in a double sense: its pleasures made the very trial of unknowing possible.
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