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Shakespeare by Stages: An Historical Introduction
ISBN: 978-0-631-22468-6
Hardcover
192 pages
April 2003, Wiley-Blackwell
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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.