Overview
- Builds on recent research on publics, fame, and celebrity in the early modern period
- Examines the theater as a means to better understand various aspects of the public sphere such as reception, cultural production, networks of communication, and consumer behavior
- Highlights the fascinating individuals (real and fictional) whom the theaters helped to publicize
Part of the book series: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700 (EMCSS)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Affective Persons, Public Theatricalities
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Bodies Public and Imaginary
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About this book
What did publicity look like before the eighteenth century? What were its uses and effects, and around whom was it organized? The essays in this collection ask these questions of early modern London. Together, they argue that commercial theater was a vital engine in celebrity’s production. The men and women associated with playing—not just actors and authors, but playgoers, characters, and the extraordinary local figures adjunct to playhouse productions—introduced new ways of thinking about the function and meaning of fame in the period; about the networks of communication through which it spread; and about theatrical publics. Drawing on the insights of Habermasean public sphere theory and on the interdisciplinary field of celebrity studies, Publicity and the Early Modern Stage introduces a new and comprehensive look at early modern theories and experiences of publicity.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Allison Deutermann is Associate Professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York, USA. She is the author of Listening for Theatrical Form in Early Modern England (2016) and, with András Kiséry, co-editor of Formal Matters: Reading the Materials of English Renaissance Literature (2013).
Matt Hunter is Assistant Professor of English at Texas Tech University, USA, where he teaches courses on Shakespeare, early modern literature, and literary criticism. His writing has appeared in Representations, English Literary History, English Literary Renaissance, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.
Musa Gurnis is the author of Mixed Faith and Shared Feeling (2018), a co-publication of the University of Pennsylvania Press and the Folger Shakespeare Library. Her articles have appeared in the journals Shakespeare and Shakespeare Studies, as well as in theedited collection Religion and Drama in Early Modern England (2011).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Publicity and the Early Modern Stage
Book Subtitle: People Made Public
Editors: Allison K. Deutermann, Matthew Hunter, Musa Gurnis
Series Title: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52332-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52331-2Published: 08 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52334-3Published: 08 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-52332-9Published: 07 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-5897
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5900
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 294
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, British and Irish Literature, Drama