Theatrical Convention and Audience Response in Early Modern Drama

by Jeremy Lopez

Book Overview

This book gives a detailed and comprehensive survey of the diverse, theatrically vital formal conventions of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Besides providing readings of plays such as Hamlet, Othello, Merchant of Venice, and Titus Andronicus, it also places Shakespeare emphatically within his own theatrical context, and focuses on the relationship between the demanding repertory system of the time and the conventions and content...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521032830
• ISBN13: 9780521032834
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"