Jacobean Private TheatreRoutledge, 27/03/2017 - 242 páginas In this scholarly and entertaining book, first published in 1987, the author tells the story of Jacobean private theatre. Most of the best plays written after 1610, including Shakespeare’s late plays such as The Tempest, were written for the new breed of private playhouses – small, roofed and designed for an aristocratic, literary audience, as opposed to the larger, open-air houses such as the Globe and the Red Bull, catering for a popular, ‘lowbrow’ audience. The author discusses the polarisation of taste and the effect it had on literary criticism and theatre history. This title will be of interest to students of English Literature, Drama and Performance. |
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... Webster uses it in his 1604 Induction to The Malcontent where the Black-friars itself is referred to. Dekker's The Seven Deadly Sins (1606) talks of a 'private playhouse' and quickly the term appears in regular usage to refer to the ...
... Webster, Jonson, Middleton, Ford – that make up this alternative tradition to that which we associate with the Globe. Consequently, in this book our twentieth-century touchstones of theatrical style and practice – Brecht, Artaud et al ...
... Webster are excerpts from Montaigne lightly cast as dialogue. 'Que sais je?' the French essayist took as his motto, and the habit of introspection and self-analysis, together with a relativist cast of thought, became the hallmark of ...
... Webster's The Duchess of Malfi there is a continuous exercise in grotesque art and the cultivation of 'horrid' laughter learned from Marston. This is the highest reach of mannerist tragedy; the heroic notes of conventional tragedy have ...
... Webster grumbled at 'those ignorant asses' who visited that playhouse in pursuit of novelty, not quality. The private theatre audience payed substantially more than its public theatre counterparts. A seat in the top gallery cost ...
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Jacobean Private Playhouses | |
The Private Theatre Companies their Playwrights and their | |
The Tempest at the Blackfriars | |
The Duchess of Malfi at | |
Blackfriars | |
Court Theatre 160342 | |
Bartholomew Fair at the Banqueting | |
Coelum Britannicum at | |
Notes | |
Index | |