Experiencing Drama in the English Renaissance - 9780367359027

Taylor & Francis

Experiencing Drama in the English RenaissanceReaders and Audiences\nAuthor(s): Akihiro Yamada\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367359027, 978-0367359027\nSynopsis\nThis book investigates the complex interactions, through experiencing drama, of readers and audiences in the English Renaissance.\n\nAround 1500 an absolute majority of population was illiterate. Henry VIIIs religious reformation changed this cultural structure of society. The Act for the Advancement of True Religion of 1543, which prohibited the people belonging to the lower classes of society as well as women from reading the Bible, rather suggests that there already existed a number of these folks actively engaged in reading. The Act did not ban the works of Chaucer and Gower and stories of mens lives good reading for them. The successive sovereigns educational policies also contributed to rising literacy.\n\nThis trend was speeded up by Londons g.