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Author:

Beushausen, Katrin, author.

Title:

Theatre and the English public from Reformation to Revolution / Katrin Beushausen.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xiii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Theater--England--History--16th century.
Theater--England--History--17th century.
Theater--Public relations--England--16th century.
Theater--Public relations--England--17th century.
English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
English drama--17th century--History and criticism.
English drama.
English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.
Theater.
Theater--Public relations.
England.
Glorious Revolution
Publikum
Reformation
Theater
England
1500-1699
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-295) and index.

Contents:

1. Styles of the Stage: Addressing the Public in the Post-Reformation Period -- 2. From Audience to Public: Theatre, Theatricality and the People before the Civil Wars -- 3. Public Performances: Strategies of Theatricality during the Interregnum -- 3.1. Playing to the People: Contesting Performances during the Civil Wars -- 3.2. Theatres of State: Visions of Theatricality after Monarchy -- 3.3. Rehearsing Order: Change and Continuity in Interregnum Theatricality -- 4. Playing with Prohibition: Discourses of Theatre during the Interregnum -- 4.1. The Contested Stage: Territorializing the Theatre during the Civil Wars, 1642 -- 1648 -- 4.2. The Theatre of Carnal Copulation: The Pleasures of the Page, 1649 -- 1652 -- 4.3. Circumvention by Constraint: Reforming the Stage, Taming Theatricality, 1653 -- 1659.

ISBN:

1107181453
9781107181458

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1005687666

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)