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Cartelli, Thomas

Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the Economy of Theatrical Experience / Thomas Cartelli. - 1 online resource (264 p.)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Texts -- Prefatory Note -- Introduction: Marlowe and/or Shakespeare -- 1. The Terms of Engagement -- 2. The Audience in Theory and Practice -- 3. The Tamburlaine Phenomenon -- 4. Banquo's Ghost -- 5. King Edward's Body -- 6. Radical Shakespeare -- 7. Machiavel's Ghost -- 8. The Unaccommodating Text -- Conclusion: The Imaginary Audience -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Backmatter

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This study explores the structure of psychological, social and political exchanges that were negotiated between audiences and plays in Elizabethan public theatres in a period ostensibly dominated by Shakespeare, but strongly rooted in Marlowe.




Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

ISBN: 9780812231021 9781512801569

Standard No.: 10.9783/9781512801569 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
English drama--History and criticism.--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
Theater audiences--History--England--16th century.
Cultural Studies.
Literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare.

LC Class. No.: PR658.A88 / C37 1991eb

Dewey Class. No.: 792/.0942/09031