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..."concerned [here] with the discourse of theatricality, as it is deployed in the playscripts of the early modern theater in England and in the recurrent attacks on that contested institution."
-"Comparative Drama
"Every playtext she examines, form Shakespeare's comedies and histories and Jonson's "Epicoene to less familiar ones.....reveals new and fascinating aspects under her lens."
-"Comparative Drama
..."the book's real richness is in the interpretive details....."
-"Comparative Drama
..."she examines the material practices by which [those] plays were produced to discover how these could reinforce or subvert the ideological work of the scripts."
-"Comparative Drama
"The value of Howard's lucid and searching approach lies in the sharpness of her perspective and her simultaneous awareness of the irresolvable contradictions of literary and critical texts.."
-"Seventeenth-CenturyNews/Spring-Summer, 1996
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A ground-breaking study of the social and cultural functions of the early modern theatre. Jean Howard looks at the effects of drama and the stage on early modern culture in an exciting and eminently readable work.
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..."concerned [here] with the discourse of theatricality, as it is deployed in the playscripts of the early modern theater in England and in the recurrent attacks on that contested institution."
-"Comparative Drama
"Every playtext she examines, form Shakespeare's comedies and histories and Jonson's "Epicoene to less familiar ones.....reveals new and fascinating aspects under her lens."
-"Comparative Drama
..."the book's real richness is in the interpretive details....."
-"Comparative Drama
..."she examines the material practices by which [those] plays were produced to discover how these could reinforce or subvert the ideological work of the scripts."
-"Comparative Drama
"The value of Howard's lucid and searching approach lies in the sharpness of her perspective and her simultaneous awareness of the irresolvable contradictions of literary and critical texts.."
-"Seventeenth-CenturyNews/Spring-Summer, 1996
Product Description
A ground-breaking study of the social and cultural functions of the early modern theatre. Jean Howard looks at the effects of drama and the stage on early modern culture in an exciting and eminently readable work.
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