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OverviewFestive Enterprise reveals marketplace pressures at the heart of dramatic form in medieval and Renaissance drama. In Festive Enterprise, Jill P. Ingram merges the history of economic thought with studies of theatricality and spectatorship to examine how English Renaissance plays employed forms and practices from medieval and traditional entertainments to signal the expectation of giving from their audiences. Resisting the conventional divide between medieval and Renaissance, Festive Enterprise takes a trans-Reformation view of dramaturgical strategies, which reflected the need to generate both income and audience assent. By analyzing a wide range of genres (such as civic ceremonial, mummings, interludes, scripted plays, and university drama) and a diverse range of venues (including great halls, city streets, the Inns of Court, and public playhouses), Ingram demonstrates how early moderns borrowed medieval money-gatherers' techniques to signal communal obligations and rewards for charitable support of theatrical endeavors. Ingram shows that economics and drama cannot be considered as separate enterprises in the medieval and Renaissance periods. Rather, marketplace pressures were at the heart of dramatic form in medieval and Renaissance drama alike. Festive Enterprise is an original study that traces how economic forces drove creativity in drama from medieval civic processions and guild cycle plays to the early Renaissance. It will appeal to scholars of medieval and early modern drama, theater historians, religious historians, scholars of Renaissance drama, and students in English literature, drama, and theater. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jill P. IngramPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm ISBN: 9780268109097ISBN 10: 0268109095 Pages: 260 Publication Date: 15 March 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"“The virtue of Festive Enterprise is to situate famous plays from the era in a detailed historical context that helps to illuminate the achievement of Shakespeare and some of his better-known contemporaries. It’s a solid and significant contribution to the scholarship of medieval and Renaissance drama in England.” —Paul A. Cantor, author of Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy Indeed, as an innovative, deeply detailed study of Renaissance drama's interrelation with pre-commercial economic practices, Festive Enterprise deserves much applause: it reveals the humanity and sense of community in the rise of theatrical commercialism. —Journal of British Studies ""Economically and precisely expressed, packed full of detail and useful information, and consistently lively and entertaining."" —The English Historical Review" “The virtue of Festive Enterprise is to situate famous plays from the era in a detailed historical context that helps to illuminate the achievement of Shakespeare and some of his better-known contemporaries. It’s a solid and significant contribution to the scholarship of medieval and Renaissance drama in England.” —Paul A. Cantor, author of Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy Indeed, as an innovative, deeply detailed study of Renaissance drama's interrelation with pre-commercial economic practices, Festive Enterprise deserves much applause: it reveals the humanity and sense of community in the rise of theatrical commercialism. —Journal of British Studies ""Economically and precisely expressed, packed full of detail and useful information, and consistently lively and entertaining."" —The English Historical Review The virtue of Festive Enterprise is to situate famous plays from the era in a detailed historical context that helps to illuminate the achievement of Shakespeare and some of his better-known contemporaries. It's a solid and significant contribution to the scholarship of medieval and Renaissance drama in England. -Paul A. Cantor, author of Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy Author InformationJill P. Ingram is associate professor of English at Ohio University. She is the editor of the New Kittredge edition of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost and author of Idioms of Self-Interest: Credit, Identity, and Property in English Renaissance Literature. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |