Theatre and the English public from Reformation to Revolution /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Beushausen, Katrin (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2018]
Subjects:	Theater > England > History > 16th century. Theater > England > History > 17th century. Theater and society > England > History > 16th century. Theater and society > England > History > 17th century. English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism. English drama > 17th century > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

1. Styles of the Stage: Addressing the Public in the Post-Reformation Period
2. From Audience to Public: Theatre, Theatricality and the People before the Civil Wars
3. Public Performances: Strategies of Theatricality during the Interregnum
3.1. Playing to the People: Contesting Performances during the Civil Wars
3.2. Theatres of State: Visions of Theatricality after Monarchy
3.3. Rehearsing Order: Change and Continuity in Interregnum Theatricality
4. Playing with Prohibition: Discourses of Theatre during the Interregnum
4.1. The Contested Stage: Territorializing the Theatre during the Civil Wars, 1642-1648
4.2. The Theatre of Carnal Copulation: The Pleasures of the Page, 1649-1652
4.3. Circumvention by Constraint: Reforming the Stage, Taming Theatricality, 1653-1659.