Theater and prestige : the development of the playhouse in Shakespeare's time
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Early modern playhouses did not exist independently of one another: they constituted a theatrical milieu, and to understand one theater we must understand its relation to other theaters. From the Elizabethan period through the Jacobean and Caroline periods, different theatrical venues occupied different niches in London's playgoing culture and increasingly came to cater to different audiences. This affected the kinds of plays that playwrights wrote and also influenced how playwrights defined themselves as authors. As venues became increasingly differentiated according to their audience and repertoire, literary prestige started to influence the kinds of plays that authors produced. Theatrical venues, authorship, and prestige determined the style of many plays, led to the creation of new genres, and ultimately determined how people conceived of the theater as an institution. We can gain important new insights into early modern drama by looking at how Londoners imagined their array of theatrical venues.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Kimbrell, Garth |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of English. |
| Primary advisor | Hoxby, Blair, 1966- |
| Primary advisor | Orgel, Stephen |
| Thesis advisor | Hoxby, Blair, 1966- |
| Thesis advisor | Orgel, Stephen |
| Thesis advisor | Lupic, Ivan |
| Advisor | Lupic, Ivan |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Garth Kimbrell. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of English. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2014. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2014 by Garth Eric Kimbrell
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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