Playwriting Playgoers in Shakespeare's Theater

by Matteo Pangallo

Among the dramatists who wrote for the professional playhouses of early modern London was a small group of writers who were neither members of the commercial theater industry writing to make a living nor aristocratic amateurs dipping their toes in theatrical waters for social or political prestige. Instead, they were largely working- and middle-class amateurs who had learned most of what they knew about drama from being members of the audience...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812249410
• ISBN13: 9780812249415
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"