Laughing and weeping in early modern theatres /

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Author / Creator:Steggle, Matthew.
Imprint:Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.
Description:158 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in performance and early modern drama
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6615446
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ISBN:9780754657026 (alk. paper)
0754657027 (alk. paper)
Notes:Series from jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-151) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Renaissance constructions of laughter and weeping
  • Laughing on stage
  • Weeping on stage
  • Audiences laughing
  • Audiences weeping
  • Soft smiling?: Lyly and Jonson
  • Horrid laughter
  • Shakespeare's theatre of sympathy
  • Bibliography
  • Index