Festive Enterprise: The Business of Drama in Medieval and Renaissance England

by Jill Phillips Ingram

Book Overview

Festive Enterprise reveals marketplace pressures at the heart of dramatic form in medieval and Renaissance drama.

In Festive Enterprise, Jill P. Ingram merges the history of economic thought with studies of theatricality and spectatorship to examine how English Renaissance plays employed forms and practices from medieval and traditional entertainments to signal the expectation of giving from their audiences. Resisting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268109095
• ISBN13: 9780268109097
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"