Producible Interpretation: Eight English Plays 1675-1707

by Robert D. Hume and Judith Milhous

"Producible interpretation" is a critical method used by Milhous and Hume to examine eight plays. For each play they present deductions based upon six kinds of investigation: close reading; analysis of the original cast and reception of the original production; study of the scen­ery and machines required for perform­ance; historical reading in terms of 17th-century values and views of subject matter; a survey of the play's production history;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809311674
• ISBN13: 9780809311675
• Release Date: March 1985
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"