Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the Economy of Theatrical Experience

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University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015 M08 12 - 264 pages
This study explores the structure of psychological, social and political exchanges that were negotiated between audiences and plays in Elizabethan public theatres in a period ostensibly dominated by Shakespeare, but strongly rooted in Marlowe.
 

Contents

Marlowe andor Shakespeare
1
The Economy of Theatrical Experience
7
The Webs of Plays
65
A Poetics of Demystification
119
Corrupt Texts
159
Notes
205
Works Cited
225
Index
235
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Thomas Cartelli is Professor of English and NEH Professor of Humanities, Muhlenberg College.Katherine Rowe is Professor of English at Bryn Mawr.

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