Fitzgrave's Jewel: audience and anticlimax in Middleton and Shakespeare / Jeremy Lopez. 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 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 Rhatigan -- Bleared vision in The Taming of the Shrew / James Wells -- Fitzgrave's Jewel: audience and anticlimax in Middleton and Shakespeare / Jeremy Lopez.
Summary:
"The role of the audience takes on new importance when performance is reconceived as a dialectical activity. The essays in this collection examine the relationship between dramatic performance and audience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. That relationship is complicated by multiple conceptions of the audience: playwrights imagine their audiences; actors address them; the audience actually attending the play is yet another entity. The authors combine theatre history and cultural analysis with examinations of plays and productions to explore how those involved in early modern productions conceived of their audience, how audiences shaped the dramas they watched, and even how the roles of actor and audience member sometimes merged"-- Provided by publisher.
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