{"product_id":"community-making-in-early-stuart-theatres-1","title":"Community-Making in Early Stuart Theatres","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwenty-two leading experts on early modern drama collaborate in this volume\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto explore three closely interconnected research questions. To what extent did\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eplaywrights represent \u003ci\u003edramatis personae \u003c\/i\u003ein their entertainments as forming, or\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efailing to form, communal groupings? How far were theatrical productions likely\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto weld, or separate, different communal groupings within their target audiences?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd how might such bondings or oppositions among spectators have tallied with\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe community-making or -breaking on stage? Chapters in Part One respond to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eone or more of these questions by reassessing general period trends in censorship,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etheatre attendance, forms of patronage, playwrights’ professional and linguistic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enetworks, their use of music, and their handling of ethical controversies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Part Two, responses arise from detailed re-examinations of particular plays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby Shakespeare, Chapman, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Cary, Webster, Middleton,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMassinger, Ford, and Shirley. Both Parts cover a full range of early-Stuart\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etheatre settings, from the public and popular to the more private circumstances\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof hall playhouses, court masques, women’s drama, country-house theatricals,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand school plays. And one overall finding is that, although playwrights frequently\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estaged or alluded to communal conflict, they seldom exacerbated such divisiveness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewithin their audience. Rather, they tended toward more tactful modes of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eaddress (sometimes even acknowledging their own ideological uncertainties) so\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat, at least for the duration of a play, their audiences could be a community\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewithin which internal rifts were openly brought into dialogue.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54245038489944,"sku":"9780367140502","price":62.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780367140502.jpg?v=1769049031","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/community-making-in-early-stuart-theatres-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}