Theatrical Convention and Audience Response in Early Modern Drama

Jeremy (College of William and Mary, Virginia) Lopez

Cambridge University Press, 2007

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In this comprehensive survey of the diverse, theatrically vital formal conventions of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Lopez proposes that understanding the potential for theatrical failure - the way playwrights anticipated it and audiences responded to it - is crucial for understanding how the drama succeeded on the stage.

ISBN-13
9780521032834
ISBN-10
0521032830
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2007
Publication date
2007-01-18
Pages
248
Dimensions
151x229x19
Weight
380