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Community-Making in Early Stuart Theatres - Stage and audience (Paperback)
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Community-Making in Early Stuart Theatres - Stage and audience (Paperback)
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Twenty-two leading experts on early modern drama collaborate in
this volume to explore three closely interconnected research
questions. To what extent did playwrights represent dramatis
personae in their entertainments as forming, or failing to form,
communal groupings? How far were theatrical productions likely to
weld, or separate, different communal groupings within their target
audiences? And how might such bondings or oppositions among
spectators have tallied with the community-making or -breaking on
stage? Chapters in Part One respond to one or more of these
questions by reassessing general period trends in censorship,
theatre attendance, forms of patronage, playwrights' professional
and linguistic networks, their use of music, and their handling of
ethical controversies. In Part Two, responses arise from detailed
re-examinations of particular plays by Shakespeare, Chapman,
Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Cary, Webster, Middleton, Massinger,
Ford, and Shirley. Both Parts cover a full range of early-Stuart
theatre settings, from the public and popular to the more private
circumstances of hall playhouses, court masques, women's drama,
country-house theatricals, and school plays. And one overall
finding is that, although playwrights frequently staged or alluded
to communal conflict, they seldom exacerbated such divisiveness
within their audience. Rather, they tended toward more tactful
modes of address (sometimes even acknowledging their own
ideological uncertainties) so that, at least for the duration of a
play, their audiences could be a community within which internal
rifts were openly brought into dialogue.
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