Jacobean Public Theatre

by Alexander Leggatt

Overview

Jacobean Public Theatre recovers for the modern reader the acting, production and performance values of the public theatre of Jacobean London. It relates this drama to the popular culutre of the day and concludes with a close study of four important plays, including King Lear, which emerge in an unexpected light as the products of popular tradition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134983469
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/02/2003
Series:	Theatre Production Studies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Leggatt, Alexander

Table of Contents

Introduction Part I Playhouses and audiences 1. Playhouses, stages and performances 2. The audiences and their culture Part II Popular dramturgy 3. Production values 4. Acting values 5. Telling the story 6. The fair maid of the west 7. The honest whore 8. If you know not me you know nobody 9. The true chronicle history of King Lear Appendix Notes Select Bibliography Index