Community-Making in Early Stuart Theatres - 9781409427018

Taylor & Francis

Community-Making in Early Stuart TheatresStage and audience\nAuthor(s): Anthony W. Johnson, Roger D. Sell, Helen Wilcox\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781409427018, 978-1409427018\nSynopsis\nTwenty-two leading experts on early modern drama collaborate in this volume\n\nto explore three closely interconnected research questions. To what extent did\n\nplaywrights represent dramatis personae in their entertainments as forming, or\n\nfailing to form, communal groupings? How far were theatrical productions likely\n\nto weld, or separate, different communal groupings within their target audiences?\n\nAnd how might such bondings or oppositions among spectators have tallied with\n\nthe community-making or -breaking on stage? Chapters in Part One respond to\n\none or more of these questions by reassessing general period trends in censorship,\n\ntheatre attendance, forms of patronage, playwrights professional and linguistic.