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Title: Marlowe's Edward II and the early playhouse audiences
Author/Creator: Lunney, Ruth
Institution: The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Humanities and Social Science
Description: There was a revolution in the London playhouses in the late 1580s and early 1590s, and central to it were the early performances of Marlowe's plays. The key to understanding that revolution lies less in what we notice when we read the play texts-the "mighty line," the notorious and notable characters, the subversive possibilities of the ideas-than in what the early audiences noticed when they saw and attempted to make sense of the action on stage. Marlowe's real innovation-his real subversion, if you will-was the empowering of his contemporary audience. This essay will focus on how this happened at the early performances of Edward II.
Relation: Placing the Plays of Christopher Marlowe p. 25-41
Relation: http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=7841&edition_id=10540
Date: 2008
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keyword(s): Marlowe; plays; audiences; playhouses; performance; Edward II
Resource Type: book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/804459
Identifier: ISBN:9780754662044

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