'The teares of ten thousand spectators': Shakespeare's experiments with emotion from Talbot to Richard II

Title: 'The teares of ten thousand spectators': Shakespeare's experiments with emotion from Talbot to Richard II
Creator: Lunney, Ruth
Relation: Shakespeare and Emotions: Inheritances, Enactments, Legacies p. 95-107
Relation: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
Relation: http://www.palgrave.com/br/book/9781137464743
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2015
Description: It is 1592 and Thomas Nashe in the guise of Pierce Penilesse is engaged in showing that plays offer a 'rare exercise of virtue' - at least for those who might otherwise spend the afternoon gaming, drinking or 'following of harlots.' His proof is the popularity of the English history play with its reviving of 'our forefathers valiant acts'. 'What', he asks, 'can be a sharper reproofe to these degenerate effeminate dayes of ours?' His special instance is the way audiences responded to the figure of Talbot in Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 1.
Subject: Shakespeare; emotion; critical interpretation
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1316236
Identifier: uon:23109
Identifier: ISBN:9781137464743
Language: eng

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