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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... prologue disdainful of the public house audience's taste: Our author did not calculate this play For this meridian; the bankside, he knows, Are far more skilful at the ebbs and flows Of water than of wit; he does not mean For the ...
... prologue, and the 'gentle audience' is technically one composed of gentlemen. The gentry formed the top twentieth, numerically speaking, of the population at large. Two features confirmed their gentle status: they possessed sufficient ...
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Índice
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 | |