The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England

By: Jean E. Howard

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Paperback | 2 December 1993 | Edition Number 1

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196 Pages

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"The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England" examines the conflict over the stage in Renaissance England and over what was perceived as the proliferation of theatrical practices. After the first commercial theatre was established in London in 1576, repeated attacks on the stage and on actors, writers and audiences, made available a language through which to condemn any practice deemed theatrical, deceitful or disruptive of the social order.
Drawing upon materialist and feminist theory, Jean Howard explores the ideological function of this anti-theatrical discourse, as well as the cultural function of the stage. She challenges the view that the theatre was primarily the servant of monarchical and aristocratic interest, and illustrates how new historicism has produced an incomplete picture of early modern theatre.

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..."concerned [here] with the discourse of theatricality, as it is deployed in the playscripts of the early modern theater in England and in the recurrent attacks on that contested institution." -"Comparative Drama "Every playtext she examines, form Shakespeare's comedies and histories and Jonson's "Epicoene to less familiar ones.....reveals new and fascinating aspects under her lens." -"Comparative Drama ..."the book's real richness is in the interpretive details....." -"Comparative Drama ..."she examines the material practices by which [those] plays were produced to discover how these could reinforce or subvert the ideological work of the scripts." -"Comparative Drama "The value of Howard's lucid and searching approach lies in the sharpness of her perspective and her simultaneous awareness of the irresolvable contradictions of literary and critical texts.." -"Seventeenth-CenturyNews/Spring-Summer, 1996

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