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Theatre and the English Public from Reformation to Revolution

Theatre and the English Public from Reformation to Revolution

by Katrin Beushausen
Hardback
Publication Date: 05/04/2018

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This book presents new and overarching perspectives on the relationship between theatre and public from the Henrician Reformation through the interregnum to the Restoration, combining vivid case studies with discussion of theatre's continued importance in shaping the early modern public. Considered from the vantage point of theatre, the early modern public becomes visible as an unruly agent of political change, a force that authorities both feared and appealed to, and one that proved ultimately beyond control. It was through theatrical strategies that rulers and their opposition addressed the early modern public, and in turn it was theatre's public potential that shaped the development of the stage during the revolutionary years of the seventeenth century. In this volume, Katrin Beushausen examines sources including irreverent satirical pamphlets, regal spectacles, anti-theatrical polemic and visions of state theatres, casting new light on the development of the early modern public and theatre.
ISBN:
9781107181458
9781107181458
Category:
Theatre studies
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
05-04-2018
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
310
Dimensions (mm):
235x157x20mm
Weight:
0.64kg

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