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the (repeated) raising of the royal standard in 1642 may have been highly performative, and Beushausen’s reading is attentive to how reports of the raising repeatedly describe how “moved” the… Click to show full abstract
the (repeated) raising of the royal standard in 1642 may have been highly performative, and Beushausen’s reading is attentive to how reports of the raising repeatedly describe how “moved” the crowd was; the valence of calling this event “theatrical” is less clear, and while the episode is included to strengthen the overall argument, instead it weakens it. Despite its flaws, the arguments at the heart of Theatre and the English Public are convincing, and the book as a whole successfully reframes debates about the relationship between theater and its publics. It makes visible the ways in which theatricality constituted the public sphere while it also made appeals to the passions unpredictable and even dangerous.
Journal Title: Renaissance Quarterly
Year Published: 2019
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