{"product_id":"playwriting-playgoers-in-shakespeares-theater-hardback-9780812249415","title":"Playwriting Playgoers in Shakespeare's Theater (Hardback) 9780812249415","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePlaywriting Playgoers in Shakespeare's Theater\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMatteo A. Pangallo (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812249415\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 August 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 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\"An extremely substantial contribution to the field. \u003ci\u003ePlaywriting Playgoers in Shakespeare's Theater\u003c\/i\u003e has the potential to reconfigure current debates about theatrical authorship and spectatorship, and it also acts as an invaluable primer on a range of neglected material.\" (Lucy Munro, King's College London)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the dramatists who wrote for the professional playhouses of early modern London was a small group of writers who were neither members of the commercial theater industry writing to make a living nor aristocratic amateurs dipping their toes in theatrical waters for social or political prestige. Instead, they were largely working- and middle-class amateurs who had learned most of what they knew about drama from being members of the audience.\u003cbr\u003e Using a range of familiar and lesser-known print and manuscript plays, as well as literary accounts and documentary evidence, \u003ci\u003ePlaywriting Playgoers in Shakespeare's Theater\u003c\/i\u003e shows how these playgoers wrote and revised to address what they assumed to be the needs of actors, readers, and the Master of the Revels; how they understood playhouse materials and practices; and how they crafted poetry for theatrical effects. The book also situates them in the context of the period's concepts of, and attitudes toward, playgoers' participation in the activity of playmaking.\u003cbr\u003e Plays by playgoers such as the rogue East India Company clerk Walter Mountfort or the highwayman John Clavell invite us into the creative imaginations of spectators, revealing what certain audience members wanted to see and how they thought actors might stage it. By reading Shakespeare's theater through these playgoers' works, Matteo Pangallo contributes a new category of evidence to our understanding of the relationships between the early modern stage, its plays, and its audiences. More broadly, he shows how the rise of England's first commercialized culture industry also gave rise to the first generation of participatory consumers and their attempts to engage with mainstream culture by writing early modern \"fan fiction.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. \"All write \u003ci\u003ePlayes\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. \"Mayn't a spectator write a comedy?\": The Early Modern Idea of Playgoers as Playmakers\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. \"Some other may be added\": Playwriting Playgoers Revising in Their Manuscripts\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. \"As shall be shewed before the daye of action\": Playwriting Playgoers and Performance\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. \"Watching every word\": Playwriting Playgoers as Verse Dramatists\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. \"I began to make a play\"\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\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 Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559201272088,"sku":"9780812249415","price":44.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/playwriting-playgoers-in-shakespeares-theater-hardback-9780812249415","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}