In this engaging text, Arthur Kinney introduces students to Shakespeare's plays in the context of Elizabethan and Jacobean theater. * Introduces students to Shakespeare's plays in the context of Elizabethan and Jacobean theater. * Focuses on the material conditions of playing and of playgoing. * Covers venues, audiences, actors, society, government and regulation. * Each topic is considered in relation to a selection of Shakespeare's plays. * Shows students how the plays and the context in which they were produced illuminate one another.
- ISBN10 0470775815
- ISBN13 9780470775813
- Publish Date 21 April 2008 (first published 3 March 2003)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
- Pages 192
- Language English