Jacobean Private Theatre (Routledge Library Editions: Renaissance Drama) - Softcover

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Sturgess, Keith

 
9781138236547: Jacobean Private Theatre (Routledge Library Editions: Renaissance Drama)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1138236543 ISBN 13: 9781138236547
Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

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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Sturgess, Keith

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138236543
ISBN 13 
9781138236547
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
242

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9780710210173: Jacobean Private Theatre (Theatre Production Studies)

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ISBN 10:  0710210175 ISBN 13:  9780710210173
Publisher: Routledge, 1987
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