This book investigates the complex interactions, through experiencing drama, of readers and audiences in the English Renaissance.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Tables, Figures and Acknowledgments
Works Cited and Abbreviations
Introduction to Shakespeare and the Population of London
PART ONE: Authors/Playwrights, Readers and Theatre-goers: Their Mutual Interactions
Chapter 1: The Formation of a Class of Readers
Chapter 2: The Improvement of Literacy and its Reflection in Drama
Chapter 3: The Rise of Drama and the Birth of a Class of Readers of Drama
PART TWO: Playwrights, Playbook Readers and Printers/Publishers: Their Increasing Cooperation for the Unification of Forms of Dramatic Texts
Chapter 4: Changes in Form of Dramatic Texts: A Standardization
PART THREE: Playbook Readers and their Responses to the Text
Chapter 5: Readers of Drama-their Annotations (1): Play-Quartos of Chapman, Ford and Marston
Chapter 6: Readers of Drama-their Annotations (2): Play-Quartos and the First Folio of Shakespeare
Conclusion: The Zeal of Audiences and the Passion of Readers
Appendixes
A1: The Estimated Population of London: A Comparison between Yamada and Sutherland
A2: The Distribution Ratio of Minors' Age-structure of the British Population in the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries
A3: Principles for Table 8 concerning Plays which contain Scenes of, or References to, Reading and/or
Writing-a Memorandum
A4: Shakespeare's Plays: Their Dates and Proposers of Dates, &c.
A5: Play-Quartos Published in the 1590s
A6: A List of Play-Quartos Examined
A List of Plays and Other Works mentioned with the Authors' Names
Index
