{"product_id":"festive-enterprise-jill-p-ingram-9780268109097","title":"Festive Enterprise: The Business of Drama in Medieval and Renaissance England","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFestive Enterprise \u003c\/i\u003ereveals marketplace pressures at the heart of dramatic form in medieval and Renaissance drama.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e Festive Enterprise, \u003c\/i\u003e 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 the conventional divide between medieval and Renaissance, \u003ci\u003eFestive Enterprise\u003c\/i\u003e takes a trans-Reformation view of dramaturgical strategies, which reflected the need to generate both income and audience assent. By analyzing a wide range of genres (such as civic ceremonial, mummings, interludes, scripted plays, and university drama) and a diverse range of venues (including great halls, city streets, the Inns of Court, and public playhouses), Ingram demonstrates how early moderns borrowed medieval money-gatherers' techniques to signal communal obligations and rewards for charitable support of theatrical endeavors. Ingram shows that economics and drama cannot be considered as separate enterprises in the medieval and Renaissance periods. Rather, marketplace pressures were at the heart of dramatic form in medieval and Renaissance drama alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFestive Enterprise\u003c\/i\u003e is an original study that traces how economic forces drove creativity in drama from medieval civic processions and guild cycle plays to the early Renaissance. It will appeal to scholars of medieval and early modern drama, theater historians, religious historians, scholars of Renaissance drama, and students in English literature, drama, and theater.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jill P. Ingram\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0268109095\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268109097\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d","brand":"Jill P. Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43989108326655,"sku":"9780268109097","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6d917561-2736-4554-b4c4-557bc1805a74.jpg?v=1683297711","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/festive-enterprise-jill-p-ingram-9780268109097","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}