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9781472405555

Introduction

PERIOD TRENDS. Dramatic Censorship: Social Cohesion and Division / Richard Dutton

What is an audience? / Stephen Orgel

Lower-Class Theatre Communities under the Early Stuarts / Andrew Gurr

The Professional and Linguistic Communities of Early Modern Dramatists / Anupam Basu, Jonathan Hope, and Michael Witmore

Collaborative Playwrights and Community-Making / Suzanne Gossett

For Love not Money: Community-making in Non-commercial Drama / Alison Findlay

Disgust and Delight: Apollo Shroving, The Roaring Girl, and Community Theatre / Ros King

Musical Community in Early Modern Theatre / David Lindley

Honour Dishonoured: The Communicational Workings of Early Stuart Tragedy and Tragi-comedy / Roger D. Sell

INDIVIDUAL PLAYWRIGHTS. Community and Shakespearean Metonymy: Antony and Cleopatra / Ann Thompson and John O. Thompson

The Communities of George Chapman's All Fools / Tom Rutter

Ben Jonson: Madness and Community / Richard Harp

Plotting, Ambiguity, and Community in the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher / Lucy Munro

Cary, Community, and Audience / Ramona Wray

Rotting Together? The Quest for Community in Webster's Tragedies / Helen Wilcox

Cut my heart in sums: Community-Making and Breaking in the Prodigal Drama of Thomas Middleton / Andrew Hiscock

Massinger's Divided Communities / Martin Butler

Antisocial Ford / Martin Wiggins

Contingencies of Time and Place: A Contention for Honour and Riches, James Shirley, and the School Community / Anthony W. Johnson.

Theater audiences > England > History > 17th century.

Theater and society > England > History > 17th century.

Theater > England > History > 17th century.

Theater > Political aspects > England > History > 17th century.

English drama > 17th century > History and criticism.