Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London
Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London explores the effects of audience riots on the dramaturgy of early modern playwrights, arguing that playwrights from Marlowe to Brome often used their plays to control the physical reactions of their audience.
This study analyses how, out of anxiety that unruly audiences would destroy the nascent industry of professional drama in Eng...
Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London explores the effects of audience riots on the dramaturgy of early modern playwrights, arguing that playwrights from Marlowe to Brome often used their plays to control the physical reactions of their audience.
This study analyses how, out of anxiety that unruly audiences would destroy the nascent industry of professional drama in Eng...
