Book contents
- Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England
- Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Text
- Introduction
- Part I Players
- Part II Playgoers
- Chapter 5 Playgoing, Apprenticeship, and Profit: Francis Quicksilver, Goldsmith, and Richard Meighen, Stationer
- Chapter 6 Rethinking Early Modern Playgoing, Pleasure, and Judgement
- Chapter 7 ‘Art Hath an Enemie Cal’d Ignorance’: The Prodigal Industry of Early Modern Playwrighting
- Chapter 8 Early Modern Drama Out of Order: Chronology, Originality, and Audience Expectations
- Part III Playhouses
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 6 - Rethinking Early Modern Playgoing, Pleasure, and Judgement
from Part II - Playgoers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2022
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Book contents
- Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England
- Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Text
- Introduction
- Part I Players
- Part II Playgoers
- Chapter 5 Playgoing, Apprenticeship, and Profit: Francis Quicksilver, Goldsmith, and Richard Meighen, Stationer
- Chapter 6 Rethinking Early Modern Playgoing, Pleasure, and Judgement
- Chapter 7 ‘Art Hath an Enemie Cal’d Ignorance’: The Prodigal Industry of Early Modern Playwrighting
- Chapter 8 Early Modern Drama Out of Order: Chronology, Originality, and Audience Expectations
- Part III Playhouses
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter reconsiders the relationship between pleasure and judgement in the early modern playhouse. Whilst the significance of both pleasure and judgement to early modern playgoing is long established, critical studies have often followed the lead of a few particular playwrights’ most irritable paratextual pronouncements, in which rather extreme versions of judgement and of pleasure are explicitly framed as opposites: the censure of the wisest and highest of status is contrasted with an unthinking and unlearned pleasure that is itself defined as a lack of discernment.
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- Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern EnglandActor, Audience and Performance, pp. 122 - 141Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022