Shakespeare by Stages An Historical Introduction [Paperback]

In this engaging text, Arthur Kinney introduces students to Shakespeare’s plays in the context of Elizabethan and Jacobean theater.

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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.

List of Figures.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

List of Illustrations.

1. Stages.

2. Players.

3. Playgoers.

4. Equipment.

5. Reactions.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index

Shakespeare by Stages is highly suited to use in the classroom, providing students as well as scholars with a diversity of sources and a complex estimation of Shakespeare's theater. English Studies

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...an excellent analysis and should prove an invaluable introduction to undergraduates wishing to learn about Shakespeare's stage. Modern Language Review

Arthur F. Kinney is Copeland Professor of Literary History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Director of the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies. He is the editor of Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments (Blackwell, 1999), A Companion to Renaisl(