John J McGavin, Greg Walker

Imagining Spectatorship

From the Mysteries to the Shakespearean Stage

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Produktbeschreibung

Imagining Spectatorship is a highly innovative study in the emerging area of early spectatorship, focusing on the spectators' experience to offer new perspectives on early drama.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 137mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780198768616
• ISBN-10: 0198768613
• Artikelnr.: 47870201

Autorenporträt

Educated at the University of Edinburgh, John McGavin has spent his whole career in the University of Southampton, where he was recently appointed Emeritus Professor. He is a Fellow of the English Association, and is currently chair of the Executive Board of Records of Early English Drama, for which he is preparing a volume on South-East Scotland. He project-managed creation of the Early Modern London Theatres (EMLoT) database. He is a member of the English Association, the Southampton Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture, Medieval English Theatre, and the Scottish Text Society, and has held research fellowships in the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Greg Walker is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Prior to that he was Professor of early-modern literature and culture at the University of Leicester. He has written extensively on the drama, poetry, and prose, and the political and religious history of the late medieval period and the sixteenth century in England and Scotland. He has edited the Oxford Anthology of Tudor Drama, and, is co-editor with Thomas Betteridge of The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama, and with Elaine Treharne of The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: The Spectatorial Turn
* 2: Tudor Household Drama: Beyond the Cognitive Turn
* 3: Figuring the Spectator: The Entertainments at Carew Castle and
Wisdom
* 4: Staging Revelation: Virtuous and Godly Susanna, John Bale, and the
Chester Antichrist
* 5: Witnessing The Three Estates
* 6: Afterword: Cueing Spectatorship