Jacobean Public Theatre

Alexander Leggatt

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Routledge
22 October 1992

The Arts: General & Reference; Performance art; Theatre Studies; British & Irish history; Early history: c 500 to c 1450&1500; Social & cultural history; School editions of fiction texts

Series: Theatre Production Studies

The public playhouses of Jacobean London, and the popular drama they produced, were a vital part of English

theatre history. Yet this work has too often been neglected

by conventional literary criticism. Jacobean Public Theatre

recovers this vigorous popular drama for the modern reader by presenting the plays not as literary texts, but as scripts and using them to examine contemporary acting, production and performance values. The imaginative use of spectacle, the social meaning of theatrical gesture, the close proximity of actor and spectator, the shared moral and political values made theatregoing at these playhouses a highly communal experience. In addition to its close study of popular dramaturgy and performance conventions, Jacobean Public Theatre, surveys the nature of the popular audience, its culture and its

contribution to performance. It concludes with a close examination of four major plays, including King Lear , which emerges in an unexpected light as a play that draws creatively on the conventions of popular theatre.

By: Alexander Leggatt
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9780415010481
ISBN 10: 0415010489
Series: Theatre Production Studies
Pages: 236
Publication Date: 22 October 1992
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Leggatt, Alexander

Reviews for Jacobean Public Theatre

... the last and best of four studies of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre in the series Theatre Production Studies...highly recommended. <br>-David C. McPherson, University of New Mexico <br>