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Listening for Theatrical Form in Early Modern England

Listening for Theatrical Form in Early Modern England

Deutermann, Allison K.

Paperback

Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1474426085
ISBN13: 9781474426084
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Aug 1 2017
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Examines the impact of hearing on the formal and generic development of early modern theatre
Early modern drama was in fundamental ways an aural art form. How plays should sound, and how they should be heard, were vital questions to the formal development of early modern drama. Ultimately, they shaped the two of its most popular genres: revenge tragedy and city comedy. Simply put, theatregoers were taught to hear these plays differently. Revenge tragedies by Shakespeare and Kyd imagine sound stabbing, piercing, and slicing into listeners' bodies on and off the stage; while comedies by Jonson and Marston imagine it being sampled selectively, according to taste. Listening for Theatrical Form in Early Modern England traces the dialectical development of these two genres and auditory modes over six decades of commercial theatre history, combining surveys of the theatrical marketplace with focused attention to specific plays and to the non-dramatic literature that gives this interest in audition texture: anatomy texts, sermons, music treatises, and manuals on rhetoric and poetics.

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