1st Edition

Games and Theatre in Shakespeare's England

Edited By Tom Bishop, Gina Bloom, Erika T. Lin Copyright 2021
332 Pages
by Routledge

332 Pages
by Routledge

332 Pages
by Routledge

Games and Theatre in Shakespeare's England brings together theories of play and game with theatre and performance to produce new understandings of the history and design of early modern English drama. Through literary analysis and embodied practice, an international team of distinguished scholars examines a wide range of games—from dicing to bowling to role-playing to videogames—to uncover their... Read more
Acknowledgments, List of Abbreviations, Introduction, Part I, Part II, Part III, Epilogue: Field of Play: Gamifying Early Modern Theatre and Performance Studies, Index

Biography

Tom Bishop is Professor of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Gina Bloom is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. Erika T. Lin is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance at the Graduate Center, CUNY.