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Routledge Staging Spectatorship in Philip Massinger Plays - Early Modern Drama

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This scholarly study examines on-stage spectatorship in three plays by Philip Massinger, the head playwright for the King's Men during the early modern period. The book explores how playwrights composing for the London stage between 1580 and 1642 repeatedly staged plays-within and other metatheatrical inserts to present fictionalized spectators and performers. By analysing images of audience-stage interaction within the theatre, the work reveals how these performances enact the interpretive work of spectatorship itself. The study provides valuable insight into early modern conceptions of audiences, spectatorship and perception, offering theatre historians and scholars a detailed examination of how dramatists like Massinger used metatheatrical devices to comment on the nature of theatrical observation and the spectator's role in creating meaning.

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Focuses on three plays by Philip Massinger, the King's Men's head playwright during the early modern theatre period.

Explores metatheatrical inserts and plays-within-plays as tools for staging spectatorship and audience representation.

Examines how early modern playwrights between 1580 and 1642 created fictionalized spectators to illuminate audience-stage interaction.

Analyses the interpretive work of spectatorship as both an enacted performance and a source of dramatic meaning.

Part of the Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama series published by Routledge for academic theatre research.

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hardcover
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Amazon UK
Release Date
28 April 2010
Listed Since
15 February 2007

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