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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... style here, largely because we still know little about it, though there are attempts to speculate about the changes in style imposed by the indoor playing conditions. In the chapters on the plays themselves (6, 7, 9 and 10) much use is ...
... style or a refined elegance is one aspect of the modern usage. The other is an emphasis on the artist's personal, often agonised, perception of reality and on an art which ignores or deconstructs conventional images of external nature ...
... style. Contemporary debate on what constituted a gentleman also laid stress on blood and descent, but personal qualities, attitudes and the possession of wealth were more important. The gentry were seen by contemporary commentators as ...
... style. The present play, he is told, does not contain a fool, which, Spruce and Spark maintain, is an outmoded comic device. So Thrift resolves to ask for his entrance fee back and leave: I'll to the Bull or Fortune, and there see A ...
... style was neither vicious nor ostentatious, will serve as a foil to Spruce and allow us to see, as nowhere else, the theatre-going habits of a Blackfriars patron over some years. Sir Humphrey Mildmay, in his forties for the decade ...
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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 | |