Common understandings, poetic confusion : playhouses and playgoers in Elizabethan England

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Common understandings, poetic confusion : playhouses and playgoers in Elizabethan England

William N. West

University of Chicago Press, 2021

  • : pbk.

タイトル別名

Playhouses and playgoers in Elizabethan England

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p.[251]-308) and index

収録内容

  • Introduction
  • Playing
  • Occupatio
  • Understanders
  • Confusion
  • Supposes
  • Eating
  • Non plus
  • Trying conclusions

内容説明・目次

内容説明

A new account of playgoing in Elizabethan England, in which audiences participated as much as performers. What if going to a play in Elizabethan England was more like attending a football match than a Broadway show-or playing in one? In Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion, William N. West proposes a new account of the kind of participatory entertainment expected by the actors and the audience during the careers of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. West finds surprising descriptions of these theatrical experiences in the figurative language of early modern players and playgoers-including understanding, confusion, occupation, eating, and fighting. Such words and ways of speaking are still in use today, but their earlier meanings, like that of theater itself, are subtly, importantly different from our own. Playing was not confined to the actors on the stage but filled the playhouse, embracing audiences and performers in collaborative experiences that did not belong to any one alone but to the assembled, various crowd. What emerged in playing was a kind of thinking and feeling distributed across persons and times that were otherwise distinct. Thrown apples, smashed bottles of beer, and lumbering bears-these and more gave verbal shape to the physical interactions between players and playgoers, creating circuits of exchange, production, and consumption.

目次

A Note on Textual and Other Performances Introduction There Is Not Agreement of Opinion All the World's a Stage Every Like Is Not the Same 1: Playing Merely Players What Learn You By That? But Mark This Show 2: Occupatio An Excellent Good Word Before It Was Ill Sorted Looking Well to Borders So Curious in New Fangles 3: Understanders Deep in Understanding Plain and Easy to Be Understanden All Readers to Be Understanders Feelingly Perceive 4: Confusion Nothing but Confusion and Errors Babylonical Confusion What More Fitter Occasion? Diverse Men of Diverse Minds Commons Knowledge Interlude. Playing, Thinking 5: Supposes Valedictions to Sense Brokers of Another's Wit A Stalking-Stamping Player Authors of All the Content 6: Eating Between Meals Some Hungry Scenes Playing with Food 7: Non Plus I'll Have a Challenge, Too Fencers, Bearwards, Common Players Non Plus Trying Conclusions Acknowledgments Notes Index

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