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Author Rochester, Joanne

Title Staging spectatorship in the plays of Philip Massinger / Joanne Rochester
Published Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (172 pages)
Series Studies in performance and early modern drama
Studies in performance and early modern drama.
Contents "What doe wee acte to day?": plays within the play: The Roman actor -- "For your sport / You shall see a masterpiece": Masques-within in The picture, The guardian and The city madam -- "Speculations / On cheating pictures": visual art as dramatic inset: The picture -- "Make your howse the stage on which weel act/our comick sceane: trials and paradramatic scenes
Summary In Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger, Joanne Rochester examines examples of on-stage spectatorship in three plays by Massinger, head playwright for the King's Men from 1625 to 1640. Focusing on the specific form of metatheatrical inset in each play-plays-within in The Roman Actor, masques-within in The City Madam, and the titular miniature portrait of The Picture - she analyzes Massinger's assumptions about interpretation, perception and spectator response
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Massinger, Philip, 1583-1640 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Massinger, Philip, 1583-1640 fast
Subject Theater audiences in literature.
Visual perception in literature.
Theater audiences -- England -- History -- 17th century
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Theater audiences
Theater audiences in literature
Visual perception in literature
England
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009031368
ISBN 9780754699385
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