1st Edition

Community-Making in Early Stuart Theatres Stage and audience

Edited By Anthony W. Johnson, Roger D. Sell, Helen Wilcox Copyright 2017
432 Pages
by Routledge

450 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

450 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Twenty-two leading experts on early modern drama collaborate in this volume to explore three closely interconnected research questions. To what extent did playwrights represent dramatis personae in their entertainments as forming, or failing to form, communal groupings? How far were theatrical productions likely to weld, or separate, different communal groupings within their target... Read more
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Biography

Roger D. Sell is Emeritus H.W. Donner Research Professor of Literary Communication

at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.

Anthony W. Johnson is J.O.E. Donner Professor of English Language and Literature

at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.

Helen Wilcox is Professor of English at Bangor University, Wales.

"The essays in Community-Making in the Stuart Theatres offer an important addition to an ongoing reassesment of the theatre's place among the disparate communities in which it was immersed." -- Mark Bayer, University of Texas at San Antonio, Early Theatre, 21.1 (2018)