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'Public' and 'Private' Playhouses in Renaissance England
Price, Eoin; Cuthbertson, Ian M.
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Description for 'Public' and 'Private' Playhouses in Renaissance England
Hardback. This book illuminates the politics of Renaissance theatre culture and playbook publication by analysing how and why playhouses came to be referred to as 'public' or 'private'. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 95 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 286.
At the start of the seventeenth century a distinction emerged between 'public', outdoor, amphitheatre playhouses and 'private', indoor, hall venues. This book is the first sustained attempt to ask: why? Theatre historians have long acknowledged these terms, but have failed to attest to their variety and complexity. Assessing a range of evidence, from the start of the Elizabethan period to the beginning of the Restoration, the book overturns received scholarly wisdom to reach new insights into the politics of theatre culture and playbook publication. Standard accounts of the 'public' and 'private' theatres have either ignored the terms, or offered ... Read more
At the start of the seventeenth century a distinction emerged between 'public', outdoor, amphitheatre playhouses and 'private', indoor, hall venues. This book is the first sustained attempt to ask: why? Theatre historians have long acknowledged these terms, but have failed to attest to their variety and complexity. Assessing a range of evidence, from the start of the Elizabethan period to the beginning of the Restoration, the book overturns received scholarly wisdom to reach new insights into the politics of theatre culture and playbook publication. Standard accounts of the 'public' and 'private' theatres have either ignored the terms, or offered ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
95
Condition
New
Series
Early Modern Literature in History
Number of Pages
95
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137494917
SKU
V9781137494917
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99-15
About Price, Eoin; Cuthbertson, Ian M.
Eoin Price is Tutor in English Literature at Swansea University, UK. He has published in Literature Compass, The Map of Early Modern London, and The Year's Work in English Studies.
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