{"product_id":"theatrical-convention-and-audience-response-in-early-modern-drama-hardback-9780521820066","title":"Theatrical Convention and Audience Response in Early Modern Drama (Hardback) 9780521820066","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTheatrical Convention and Audience Response in Early Modern Drama\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA survey of the formal conventions of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJeremy Lopez (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521820066, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 December 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.552 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\"I came away enriched by having been taken through a well-conceived, carefully constructed, and clear presentation.\" Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England Alan Dessen\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book gives a detailed and comprehensive survey of the diverse, theatrically vital formal conventions of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Besides providing readings of plays such as Hamlet, Othello, Merchant of Venice, and Titus Andronicus, it also places Shakespeare emphatically within his own theatrical context, and focuses on the relationship between the demanding repertory system of the time and the conventions and content of the plays. Lopez argues that the limitations of the relatively bare stage and non-naturalistic mode of early modern theatre would have made the potential for failure very great, and he proposes that understanding this potential for failure is crucial for understanding the way in which the drama succeeded on stage. The book offers perspectives on familiar conventions such as the pun, the aside and the expository speech; and it works toward a definition of early modern theatrical genres based on the relationship between these well-known conventions and the incoherent experience of early modern theatrical narratives.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I: 1. 'As it was acted to great applause': Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences and the physicality of response\u003cbr\u003e 2. Meat, magic and metamorphosis: on puns and wordplay\u003cbr\u003e 3. Managing the aside\u003cbr\u003e 4. Exposition, redundancy, action\u003cbr\u003e 5. Disorder and convention\u003cbr\u003e Part II: Introduction to Part II\u003cbr\u003e 6. Drama of disappointment: character and narrative in Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy\u003cbr\u003e 7. Laughter and narrative in Elizabethan and Jacobean comedy\u003cbr\u003e 8. Epilogue: Jonson and Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003e Plays and editions cited\u003cbr\u003e Works cited\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Theatre studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theatre studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theatre%20studies%20%5BAN%5D%22\"\u003eAN\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265162203416,"sku":"9780521820066","price":87.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521820066i.jpg?v=1692020134","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/theatrical-convention-and-audience-response-in-early-modern-drama-hardback-9780521820066","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}