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Persecution, Plague, and Fire
Ellen Mackay
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Description for Persecution, Plague, and Fire
Hardcover. Presents a study of playhouse catastrophes and the theory of performance they convey. Bringing together dramatic theory,theatrical, religious, and cultural history, this title reveals the period's radical take on the history and the future of the stage to show just how critical the relation was between early modern English theater and its public. Num Pages: 352 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; AN; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
The theater of early modern England was a disastrous affair. The scant record of its performance demonstrates as much, for what we tend to remember today of the Shakespearean stage and its history are landmark moments of its dissolution: the burning down of the Globe, the forced closure of playhouses during outbreaks of the plague, and the abolition of the theater by its Cromwellian opponents. "Persecution, Plague, and Fire" is a study of such playhouse catastrophes and the theory of performance they convey. Ellen MacKay argues that the various disasters that afflicted the English theater during its golden age were ... Read more
The theater of early modern England was a disastrous affair. The scant record of its performance demonstrates as much, for what we tend to remember today of the Shakespearean stage and its history are landmark moments of its dissolution: the burning down of the Globe, the forced closure of playhouses during outbreaks of the plague, and the abolition of the theater by its Cromwellian opponents. "Persecution, Plague, and Fire" is a study of such playhouse catastrophes and the theory of performance they convey. Ellen MacKay argues that the various disasters that afflicted the English theater during its golden age were ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226500195
SKU
V9780226500195
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About Ellen Mackay
Ellen MacKay is assistant professor of English at Indiana University.
Reviews for Persecution, Plague, and Fire
"Persecution, Plague, and Fire is a provocative and important book, one of the few - in some senses, the only - to engage both pro- and antitheatrical discourse in early modern England. MacKay's effort to track a kind of conceptual aporia in the early modern theater's understanding of its historical position, and indeed of its effective means, is developed in ... Read more