Rethinking early modern playgoing, pleasure, and judgement

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Abstract

This chapter reconsiders the relationship between pleasure and judgement in the early modern playhouse. Whilst the significance of both pleasure and judgement to early modern playgoing is long established, critical studies have often followed the lead of a few particular playwrights’ most irritable paratextual pronouncements, in which rather extreme versions of judgement and of pleasure are explicitly framed as opposites: the censure of the wisest and highest of status is contrasted with an unthinking and unlearned pleasure that is itself defined as a lack of discernment.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPlaying and Playgoing in Early Modern England
Subtitle of host publicationActor, Audience and Performance
EditorsSimon Smith, Emma Whipday
Place of PublicationCambridge
PublisherCambridge University Press
Chapter6
Pages122-141
Number of pages20
ISBN (Electronic)9781108773775
ISBN (Print)9781108489058
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2022

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