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- catalog abstract "Douglas Bruster's provocative study of English Renaissance drama explores its links with Elizabethan and Jacobean economy and society, looking at the professional status of playwrights such as Shakespeare, and the establishment of commercial theaters. Stressing that playhouses were, first and foremost, places of business, he argues that a significant proportion of the drama's practical energy went toward understanding the material conditions that maintained its existence. He sees this impetus as part of a 'materialist vision' which has its origins in the climate of uncertainty engendered by a rapidly expanding London and its burgeoning market. Exploring, for example, the economic importance of the cuckold theme, the role taken by stage objects as commodities, and the commercial significance of the Troy story as staged in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, Bruster returns the theater and the plays performed there to their basis in the material world. In doing so, he offers new ways of reading the drama of Renaissance England.".
- catalog contributor b3960148.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description "1. Towards a material theatre -- 2. Drama and the Age -- 3. 'City comedy' and the materialist vision -- 4. Horns of plenty: cuckoldry and capital -- 5. The objects of farce: identity and commodity -- 6. The farce of objects: Othello to Bartholomew Fair -- 7. 'The alteration of men': Troilus and Cressida, Troynovant, and trade.".
- catalog description "Douglas Bruster's provocative study of English Renaissance drama explores its links with Elizabethan and Jacobean economy and society, looking at the professional status of playwrights such as Shakespeare, and the establishment of commercial theaters. Stressing that playhouses were, first and foremost, places of business, he argues that a significant proportion of the drama's practical energy went toward understanding the material conditions that maintained its existence. He sees this impetus as part of a 'materialist vision' which has its origins in the climate of uncertainty engendered by a rapidly expanding London and its burgeoning market. Exploring, for example, the economic importance of the cuckold theme, the role taken by stage objects as commodities, and the commercial significance of the Troy story as staged in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, Bruster returns the theater and the plays performed there to their basis in the material world. In doing so, he offers new ways of reading the drama of Renaissance England.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-159) and index.".
- catalog extent "xv, 164 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0521416647".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 1".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "England.".
- catalog subject "822/.3/09 20".
- catalog subject "Drama Economic aspects England.".
- catalog subject "Dramatists, English Early modern, 1500-1700 Economic conditions.".
- catalog subject "Economics in literature.".
- catalog subject "English drama 17th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English drama Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society England.".
- catalog subject "PR658.E35 B78 1992".
- catalog subject "Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Knowledge Economics.".
- catalog subject "Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.".
- catalog subject "Theater Economic aspects England.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Towards a material theatre -- 2. Drama and the Age -- 3. 'City comedy' and the materialist vision -- 4. Horns of plenty: cuckoldry and capital -- 5. The objects of farce: identity and commodity -- 6. The farce of objects: Othello to Bartholomew Fair -- 7. 'The alteration of men': Troilus and Cressida, Troynovant, and trade.".
- catalog title "Drama and the market in the age of Shakespeare / Douglas Bruster.".
- catalog type "text".