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Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London (Hardcover)
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Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
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Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London
explores the effects of audience riots on the dramaturgy of early
modern playwrights, arguing that playwrights from Marlowe to Brome
often used their plays to control the physical reactions of their
audience. This study analyses how, out of anxiety that unruly
audiences would destroy the nascent industry of professional drama
in England, playwrights sought to limit the effect that their plays
could have on the audience. They tried to construct playgoing
through their drama in the hopes of creating a less-reactive, more
pensive, and controlled playgoer. The result was the radical
experimentation in dramaturgy that, in part, defines Renaissance
drama. Written for scholars of Early Modern and Renaissance Drama
and Theatre, Theatre History, and Early Modern and Renaissance
History, this book calls for a new focus on the local economic
concerns of the theatre companies as a way to understand the
motivation behind the drama of early modern London.
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