Theatrical Convention and Audience Response in Early Modern Drama (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521820066)

This book provides a detailed and comprehensive survey of the diverse, formal conventions of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Focusing on the relationship between the repertory system and the conventions and content of the plays, Jeremy Lopez proposes that understanding the potential for theatrical failure (the way playwrights anticipated it and audiences responded to it) is crucial for understanding the way in which the drama succeeded on the stage.

Author: Jeremy Lopez
ISBN-10: 0521820065
ISBN-13: 9780521820066
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/13/2003
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.80d