Playgoing in Shakespeare's London

Playgoing in Shakespeare's London by Andrew Gurr

This is a new edition of Andrew Gurr's classic account of the people for whom Shakespeare wrote his plays. Gurr assembles all the evidence from the writings of the time to describe the physical structure of the different types of playhouse, the services provided in the auditorium, the cost of a ticket and a cushion, the size of the crowds, the smells, the pickpockets, and the collective feelings generated by the plays. Since 1987 there have been many new discoveries about Shakespeare's theatres. Gurr introduces fresh evidence about the experience of attending a play in Shakespeare's time, adds more than thirty new entries to his account of the early playgoers and provides a select bibliography.

'Playgoing in Shakespeare's London will prove an indispensable quarry for information on theatres and audiences for a long time to come' Renaissance Drama Newsletter
'The most vivid and substantial account of the playgoers of Shakespeare's time.' The Times Literary Supplement

Gurr, Andrew: - Andrew Gurr is Professor Emeritus at the University of Reading, and for the past thirty years has been Director of Research in London for the Globe Theatre. His books on the subject of theatre history include The Shakespearean Stage 1574-1642 (Cambridge, 1992), now in its fourth edition, The Shakespearean Playing Companies (1996), Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres (with Mariko Ichikawa, 2000), Playgoing in Shakespeare's London (Cambridge, 2004), The Shakespeare Company 1594-1642 (Cambridge, 2010), and Shakespeare's Opposites: The Admiral's Company, 1594-1625 (Cambridge, 2012). He has also edited the New Cambridge Shakespeare editions of King Richard II (1984) and King Henry V (1992).

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Titel	Playgoing in Shakespeare's London
Autor	Andrew Gurr
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1996-09-19
Seitenanzahl	325
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