Stages and playgoers : from guild plays to Shakespeare
Janet Hill (Author)
"The tradition of direct address has little to do with the frequently touted notion of the "fluidity of the Renaissance stage": the point is not that stage characters can talk to the audience but that they actually do reach out to the playgoers and in so doing import aspects of the audience world to the stage. These exchanges appear frequently in late-medieval drama and continue to be crucial stage strategies for Shakespeare, in whose work they grow and change."--Jacket
Electronic books
1 online resource (241 pages)
9780773569706, 0773569707
133159461
Introduction
Oure plays
Nonce plays
I know you all
Open address in the romances