ABSTRACT
First published in 1992. In the English Renaissance theater, the text is structured by the multiple and complex collaborations that the theater demanded between patrons and players, playwrights and printers, playhouses and playgoers. The essays in this volume attempt to register these collaborations, emphasizing the ways in which the theater is at once responsive to and constitutive of the social formations of Renaissance England. At the same time, these essays recognize that their historical grounding is not unproblematic.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|82 pages
The Conditions of Playing
part II|193 pages
The Plays
chapter 11|15 pages
“Tragedies naturally performed”: Kyd's Representation of Violence
The Spanish Tragedy (c. 1587)
chapter 19|11 pages
Reading the Body and the Jacobean Theater of Consumption
The Revenger's Tragedy (1606)