Imagining the Audience in Early Modern Drama, 1558-1642

By Nova Myhill

Book Overview

Introduction: Audience and Audiences - Nova Myhill and Jennifer A. Low * Crowd Control - Paul Menzer * Taking the Stage: Spectators as Spectacle in the Caroline Private Theaters - Nova Myhill * The Curious Case of the Two Audiences: Thomas Dekker's Match Me in London - Mark Bayer * Door Number Three: Time, Space, and Audience Experience in The Menaechmi and The Comedy of Errors - Jennifer A. Low * Audience as Witness in Edward II - Meg F. Pearson * 'Lord of thy presence': Bodies, Performance, and Audience Interpretation in Shakespeare's King John - Erika T. Lin * Charismatic Audience: A 1559 Pageant - David M. Bergeron * Audience, Actors, and 'Taking Part' in the Revels - Emma K. Rhatigan * Bleared Vision in The Taming of the Shrew - James Wells * Fitzgrave's Jewel: Audience and Anticlimax in Middleton and Shakespeare - Jeremy Lopez

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349293105
• ISBN13: 9781349293100
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"