A monster with a thousand hands : the discursive spectator in early modern England /

A Monster with a Thousand Hands makes visible a figure that has been largely overlooked in early modern scholarship on theater and audiences: the discursive spectator, an entity distinct from the actual bodies attending early modern English playhouses. Amy J. Rodgers demonstrates how the English com...

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Main Author: Rodgers, Amy J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • Toward a theory of discursive spectatorship
  • The blood of the muses: violent spectatorship and authorial response in The Knight of the Burning Pestle
  • The book of praises: the spectator as reader in Shakespeare's romances
  • The language of looking: making senses speak in Jonsonian Masque