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Chapter 5 - Audience
from Part III - Theater History
Lauren Robertson, Columbia University, New York
Book:

Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater

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02 February 2023

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09 February 2023, pp 185-217
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By the commercial theater’s closure in 1642, frequent playgoers commanded a vast trove of knowledge regarding the devices, tropes, character types, and genres of the commercial theater. But those conventions were as exploitable as they were familiar, and Chapter 5 shows how theater practitioners managed to surprise those spectators with especially long horizons of dramatic expectation. The chapter examines the striking durability of revenge tragedy in the commercial theater by juxtaposing two plays that nearly bookend its heyday: Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy and Philip Massinger’s The Roman Actor. In revealing the ways that The Roman Actor exploits spectators’ knowledge of Kyd’s play, as well as the tropes of revenge tragedy more broadly, the chapter outlines the techniques by which Caroline theater practitioners made the eminently familiar newly strange.

137 - Shakespeare’s Early Reception in Europe
from Part XIV - Shakespeare’s Early Reception (to 1660)
- By Jozef de Vos
Edited by Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California
Edited in association with Katherine Rowe, Smith College, Massachusetts
With Ton Hoenselaars, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, Akiko Kusunoki, Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin, Aimara da Cunha Resende, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Book:

The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare

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17 August 2019

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21 January 2016, pp 1028-1032
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Part XI - Medicine
- By Mary Fissell
Edited by Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California
Edited in association with Katherine Rowe, Smith College, Massachusetts
With Ton Hoenselaars, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, Akiko Kusunoki, Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin, Aimara da Cunha Resende, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare

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17 August 2019

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21 January 2016, pp 761-828
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Part V - Printing, Publishing, Textuality
- By John Jowett
Edited by Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California
Edited in association with Katherine Rowe, Smith College, Massachusetts
With Ton Hoenselaars, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, Akiko Kusunoki, Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin, Aimara da Cunha Resende, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare

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17 August 2019

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21 January 2016, pp 323-374
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116 - Thomas Kyd
from Part XIII - Shakespeare’s Fellows
- By Clara Calvo
Edited by Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California
Edited in association with Katherine Rowe, Smith College, Massachusetts
With Ton Hoenselaars, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, Akiko Kusunoki, Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin, Aimara da Cunha Resende, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare

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17 August 2019

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21 January 2016, pp 899-904
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Part XIV - Shakespeare’s Early Reception (to 1660)
- By Charles Whitney
Edited by Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California
Edited in association with Katherine Rowe, Smith College, Massachusetts
With Ton Hoenselaars, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, Akiko Kusunoki, Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin, Aimara da Cunha Resende, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare

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17 August 2019

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21 January 2016, pp 973-1032
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47 - Paper
from Part V - Printing, Publishing, Textuality
- By R. Carter Hailey
Edited by Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California
Edited in association with Katherine Rowe, Smith College, Massachusetts
With Ton Hoenselaars, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, Akiko Kusunoki, Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin, Aimara da Cunha Resende, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare

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17 August 2019

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21 January 2016, pp 347-354
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106 - Mental Illness
from Part XI - Medicine
- By Neil Vickers
Edited by Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California
Edited in association with Katherine Rowe, Smith College, Massachusetts
With Ton Hoenselaars, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, Akiko Kusunoki, Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin, Aimara da Cunha Resende, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare

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17 August 2019

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21 January 2016, pp 815-821
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Part XIII - Shakespeare’s Fellows
- By Stanley Wells
Edited by Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California
Edited in association with Katherine Rowe, Smith College, Massachusetts
With Ton Hoenselaars, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, Akiko Kusunoki, Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin, Aimara da Cunha Resende, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare

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17 August 2019

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21 January 2016, pp 871-972
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