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Cepek, Rebecca.

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Stages of belief: The nature of audience response in medieval and early modern drama.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Stages of belief: The nature of audience response in medieval and early modern drama./
Author:	Cepek, Rebecca.
Description:	237 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-07A(E).
Subject:	Medieval literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3616052
ISBN:	9781303827532

Stages of belief: The nature of audience response in medieval and early modern drama.
Cepek, Rebecca.

Stages of belief: The nature of audience response in medieval and early modern drama. - 237 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duquesne University, 2014.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

Medieval theatrical audiences expected that dramatic performances would have some element of truth: they believed that what they saw performed was in some sense factual, and this belief was due in large part to their participation in the dramatic spectacle. By the end of the sixteenth century, however, audiences easily differentiated between reality and the fictional world of the stage. What became blurred was the difference between the fact of the performers' lives and the fictional roles they embodied on stage. I make clear the connections between these responses through an analysis of a variety of texts, including "The Pinners Play" (York), the "Sacrifice of Isaac" (Brome), the Chester Cycle, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, a variety of antitheatrical texts, elegies and other texts written in response to the death of famed early modern actor Richard Burbage, and the biography of eighteenth-century actor Lavinia Fenton. It is my contention that medieval, early modern, and eighteenth-century audiences responded to dramatic performances as experiences that created the reality they seemed only to reflect. Although these responses took different forms, they are fundamentally similar and related. This stems from the drama's function as a method of thinking about and processing reality. As such, audience response to drama assumes, on some generally unexamined level, that drama bears some relationship to reality, that it speaks some type of truth. Ultimately, this study reveals the connections between these very different times and provides an important point of departure for examining the role of belief and audience response in other genres and periods.

ISBN: 9781303827532Subjects--Topical Terms:

3168324
Medieval literature.

Stages of belief: The nature of audience response in medieval and early modern drama.
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