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Yamada, Akihiro

 
9781138719132: Experiencing Drama in the English Renaissance
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1138719137 ISBN 13 : 9781138719132
Editeur : Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

This book investigates the complex interactions, through experiencing drama, of readers and audiences in the English Renaissance.

Around 1500 an absolute majority of population was illiterate. Henry VIII's religious reformation changed this cultural structure of society. 'The Act for the Advancement of True Religion' of 1543, which prohibited the people belonging to the lower classes of society as well as women from reading the Bible, rather suggests that there already existed a number of these folks actively engaged in reading. The Act did not ban the works of Chaucer and Gower and stories of men's lives - good reading for them. The successive sovereigns' educational policies also contributed to rising literacy.

This trend was speeded up by London's growing population which invited the rise of commercial playhouses since 1567. Every citizen saw on average about seven performances every year: that is, about three per cent of London's population saw a performance a day. From 1586 onwards merchants' appearance in best-seller literature began to increase while stage representation of reading/writing scenes also increased and stimulated audiences towards reading. This was spurred by standardisation of the printing format of playbooks in the early 1580s and play-minded readers went to playbooks, eventually to create a class of playbook readers. Late in the 1590s, at last, playbooks matched with prose writings in ratio to all publications.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dr. Akihiro Yamada is a retired Professor of English Literature at Meisei University, Tokyo and is the author for more than a dozen books on Shakespeare and English Literature.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1138719137
ISBN 13 
9781138719132
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
296
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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