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13 - Audiences and Playgoing

from Part II - Theater

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
John H. Astington
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 95 - 101
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Chambers, Edmund Kerchever. William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1930.Google Scholar
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Gurr, Andrew. Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.Google Scholar
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Further reading

Astington, John H. English Court Theatre, 1558–1642. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.Google Scholar
Barish, Jonas. The Anti-theatrical Prejudice. Berkeley: U of California P, 1981.Google Scholar
Butler, Martin. Theatre and Crisis, 1632–1642. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.Google Scholar
Cook, Ann Jennalie. The Privileged Playgoers of Shakespeare’s London, 1576–1642. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1981.Google Scholar
Dawson, Anthony B., and Yachnin, Paul. The Culture of Playgoing in Shakespeare’s England: A Collaborative Debate. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.Google Scholar
Finlay, Roger. Population and Metropolis: The Demography of London, 1580–1650. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gurr, Andrew. The Shakespearean Stage, 1574–1642. 4th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Kidnie, Margaret Jane. “Shakespeare’s Audiences.” Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide. Ed. Wells, Stanley and Orlin, Lena Cowen. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003. 32–43.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Manley, Lawrence. Literature and Culture in Early Modern London. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.Google Scholar

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