Katrin Beushausen (Freie Universitat Berlin)

Theatre and the English Public from Reformation to Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides fresh perspectives on the early modern public as an audience trained by theatre. Focusing on the period 1642-1660, it offers a new take on the public of the English Revolution and fills in important blanks in the history of the English stage for theatre and literary scholars and historians.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 638g
• ISBN-13: 9781107181458
• ISBN-10: 1107181453
• Artikelnr.: 49443125

Autorenporträt

Katrin Beushausen is an independent historian and theatre scholar, and an affiliate of the Freie Universität Berlin, where she has taught on theatricality, political performance and theatrical publics. Parallel to her academic career, she works as a political campaigner and explores the relation between theatre and the public through site-specific performance projects in the public sphere.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: theatre, theatricality and the public in early modern England; 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; 4. Playing with prohibition: discourses of theatre during
the interregnum; Epilogue: theatre and the English public beyond the
Restoration.