Publicity and the early modern stage : people made public / Allison Deutermann, Musa Gurnis, Matthew Hunter, editors.
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 celebritys production. The men an...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2021]
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| Series: | Early modern cultural studies.
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| Online Access: | Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2021 English/International |
| Summary: | 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 celebritys production. The men and women associated with playingnot just actors and authors, but playgoers, characters, and the extraordinary local figures adjunct to playhouse productionsintroduced 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. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 3030523314 9783030523312 3030523322 9783030523329 |