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Shakespeare by Stages: An Historical Introduction

ISBN: 978-0-631-22469-3
Paperback
194 pages
April 2003, ©2003, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • 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.