{"product_id":"festive-enterprise-the-business-of-drama-in-medieval-and-renaissance-england-paperback-softback-9780268109097","title":"Festive Enterprise; The Business of Drama in Medieval and Renaissance England (Paperback \/ softback) 9780268109097","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFestive Enterprise\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Business of Drama in Medieval and Renaissance England\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJill P. Ingram (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780268109097\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 March 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e260 pages, - 6 Illustrations, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.37 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndeed, as an innovative, deeply detailed study of Renaissance drama's interrelation with pre-commercial economic practices, \u003cem\u003eFestive Enterprise\u003c\/em\u003e deserves much applause: it reveals the humanity and sense of community in the rise of theatrical commercialism. —\u003cem\u003eJournal of British Studies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The virtue of \u003cem\u003eFestive Enterprise\u003c\/em\u003e is to situate famous plays from the era in a detailed historical context that helps to illuminate the achievement of Shakespeare and some of his better-known contemporaries. It's a solid and significant contribution to the scholarship of medieval and Renaissance drama in England.\" —Paul A. Cantor, author of \u003cem\u003eShakespeare's Roman Trilogy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Economically and precisely expressed, packed full of detail and useful information, and consistently lively and entertaining.\" —\u003cem\u003eThe English Historical Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFestive Enterprise \u003c\/i\u003ereveals marketplace pressures at the heart of dramatic form in medieval and Renaissance drama.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e Festive Enterprise,\u003c\/i\u003e Jill P. Ingram merges the history of economic thought with studies of theatricality and spectatorship to examine how English Renaissance plays employed forms and practices from medieval and traditional entertainments to signal the expectation of giving from their audiences. Resisting the conventional divide between medieval and Renaissance, \u003ci\u003eFestive Enterprise\u003c\/i\u003e takes a trans-Reformation view of dramaturgical strategies, which reflected the need to generate both income and audience assent. By analyzing a wide range of genres (such as civic ceremonial, mummings, interludes, scripted plays, and university drama) and a diverse range of venues (including great halls, city streets, the Inns of Court, and public playhouses), Ingram demonstrates how early moderns borrowed medieval money-gatherers' techniques to signal communal obligations and rewards for charitable support of theatrical endeavors. Ingram shows that economics and drama cannot be considered as separate enterprises in the medieval and Renaissance periods. Rather, marketplace pressures were at the heart of dramatic form in medieval and Renaissance drama alike.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFestive Enterprise\u003c\/i\u003e is an original study that traces how economic forces drove creativity in drama from medieval civic processions and guild cycle plays to the early Renaissance. It will appeal to scholars of medieval and early modern drama, theater historians, religious historians, scholars of Renaissance drama, and students in English literature, drama, and theater.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The Festive Gatherer and the Empathetic Thief: The Genealogy of a Character\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Forms of Investment: Mummings, Prologues and Epilogues\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Reconciliation in The Winter's Tale: Devotion and Commerce from Guilds to Church Ales\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The Mobile Entertainer: John Taylor's Penniless Pilgrimage\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Coding Complaint in Gesta Grayorum and The Christmas Prince\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. \"A Jest's Prosperity\": The Market, Marprelate, and Love's Labour's Lost\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52530841026840,"sku":"9780268109097","price":41.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/festive-enterprise-the-business-of-drama-in-medieval-and-renaissance-england-paperback-softback-9780268109097","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}