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Playwright, Space and Place in Early Modern Performance - Shakespeare and Company (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Playwright, Space and Place in Early Modern Performance - Shakespeare and Company (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Analyzing Elizabethan and Jacobean playtexts for their spatial
implications, this innovative study discloses the extent to which
the resources and constraints of public playhouse buildings
affected the construction of the fictional worlds of early modern
plays. The study argues that playwrights were writing with
foresight, inscribing the constraints and resources of the stages
into their texts. It goes further, to posit that Shakespeare and
his playwright-contemporaries adhered to a set of generic
conventions, rather than specific local company practices, about
how space and place were to be related in performance: the
playwrights constituted thus an overarching virtual 'company'
producing playtexts that shared features across the acting
companies and playhouses. By clarifying a sixteenth- to
seventeenth-century conception of theatrical place, Tim Fitzpatrick
adds a new layer of meaning to our understanding of the plays. His
approach adds a new dimension to these particular documents
which-though many of them are considered of great literary
worth-were not originally generated for any other reason than to be
performed within a specific performance context. The fact that the
playwrights were aware of the features of this performance
tradition makes their texts a potential mine of performance
information, and casts light back on the texts themselves: if some
of their meanings are 'spatial', these will have been missed by
purely literary tools of analysis.
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