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Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion - Playhouses and Playgoers in Elizabethan England (Paperback)
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Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion - Playhouses and Playgoers in Elizabethan England (Paperback)
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A new account of playgoing in Elizabethan England, in which
audiences participated as much as performers. What if going to a
play in Elizabethan England was more like attending a football
match than a Broadway show-or playing in one? In Common
Understandings, Poetic Confusion, William N. West proposes a new
account of the kind of participatory entertainment expected by the
actors and the audience during the careers of Shakespeare and his
contemporaries. West finds surprising descriptions of these
theatrical experiences in the figurative language of early modern
players and playgoers-including understanding, confusion,
occupation, eating, and fighting. Such words and ways of speaking
are still in use today, but their earlier meanings, like that of
theater itself, are subtly, importantly different from our own.
Playing was not confined to the actors on the stage but filled the
playhouse, embracing audiences and performers in collaborative
experiences that did not belong to any one alone but to the
assembled, various crowd. What emerged in playing was a kind of
thinking and feeling distributed across persons and times that were
otherwise distinct. Thrown apples, smashed bottles of beer, and
lumbering bears-these and more gave verbal shape to the physical
interactions between players and playgoers, creating circuits of
exchange, production, and consumption.
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