Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London: Controlling the Unruly Playgoer in Early Modern Drama, 1st Edition

Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London explores the effects of audience riots on the dramaturgy of early modern playwrights, arguing that playwrights from Marlowe to Brome often used their plays to control the physical reactions of their audience. This study analyses how, out of anxiety that unruly audiences would destroy the nascent industry of professional drama in England, playwrights sought to limit the effect that their plays could have on the audience. They tried to construct playgoing through their drama in the hopes of creating a less-reactive, more pensive, and controlled playgoer. The result was the radical experimentation in dramaturgy that, in part, defines Renaissance drama. Written for scholars of Early Modern and Renaissance Drama and Theatre, Theatre History, and Early Modern and Renaissance History, this book calls for a new focus on the local economic concerns of the theatre companies as a way to understand the motivation behind the drama of early modern London.Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London: Controlling the Unruly Playgoer in Early Modern Drama 1st Edition is written by Eric Dunnum and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London are 9781351252638, 1351252631 and the print ISBNs are 9780815369332, 0815369336. Additional ISBNs include 9781351252652, 9781032177205, 9781351252645, 9781351252621.