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Early Modern Drama Out of Order: Chronology, Originality, and Audience Expectations
Eoin Price 
Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England, Pages: 161 - 180
Swansea University Author:
Eoin Price
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DOI (Published version): 10.1017/9781108773775.011
Abstract
Standard theatre history accounts tend to assume that plays were received in the order in which they were first performed, but playgoers were not bound to watch plays chronologically. Considering Marlowe’s influential Tamburlaine plays, the chapter asks what happens when playgoers watch plays out of...
| Published in: | Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England |
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| ISBN: | 9781108773775 |
| Published: |
Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2022
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59700 |
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| Abstract: |
Standard theatre history accounts tend to assume that plays were received in the order in which they were first performed, but playgoers were not bound to watch plays chronologically. Considering Marlowe’s influential Tamburlaine plays, the chapter asks what happens when playgoers watch plays out of the expected order. While there is clear evidence that Tamburlaine had cultural cachet at this time, it does not follow, as is generally assumed, that all audience members would have encountered Tamburlaine before other, related plays. |
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| Keywords: |
Early modern drama, performance, Marlowe, chronology |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Start Page: |
161 |
| End Page: |
180 |