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Experiencing Drama in the English Renaissance - Readers and Audiences (Hardcover)
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Experiencing Drama in the English Renaissance - Readers and Audiences (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
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This book investigates the complex interactions, through
experiencing drama, of readers and audiences in the English
Renaissance. Around 1500 an absolute majority of population was
illiterate. Henry VIII's 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 men's lives - good reading for
them. The successive sovereigns' educational policies also
contributed to rising literacy. This trend was speeded up by
London's growing population which invited the rise of commercial
playhouses since 1567. Every citizen saw on average about seven
performances every year: that is, about three per cent of London's
population saw a performance a day. From 1586 onwards merchants'
appearance in best-seller literature began to increase while stage
representation of reading/writing scenes also increased and
stimulated audiences towards reading. This was spurred by
standardisation of the printing format of playbooks in the early
1580s and play-minded readers went to playbooks, eventually to
create a class of playbook readers. Late in the 1590s, at last,
playbooks matched with prose writings in ratio to all publications.
Parts I and II of this book discuss these topics in numerical terms
as much as possible and Part III discusses some monumental
characteristics of contemporary readers of Chapman, Ford, Marston
and Shakespeare.
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