Festive Enterprise – The Business of Drama in Medieval and Renaissance England

Festive EnterpriseThe Business of Drama in Medieval and Renaissance England\nAuthor(s): Jill P. Ingram\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268109080, 978-0268109080\nSynopsis\nFestive Enterprise reveals marketplace pressures at the heart of dramatic form in medieval and Renaissance drama.\n\n In Festive Enterprise, Jill P. Ingram merges the history of economic thought with studies of theatricality and spectatorship to examine how English Renaissance plays employed forms and practices from medieval and traditional entertainments to signal the expectation of giving from their audiences. Resisting the conventional divide between medieval and Renaissance, Festive Enterprise takes a trans-Reformation view of dramaturgical strategies, which reflected the need to generate both income and audience assent. By analyzing a wide range of genres (such as civic ceremonial, mummings, interludes, scripted .