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Early Modern Drama Out of Order: Chronology, Originality, and Audience Expectations

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Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England, Pages: 161 - 180

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DOI (Published version): 10.1017/9781108773775.011

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Standard theatre history accounts tend to assume that plays were received in the order in which they were first performed, but playgoers were not bound to watch plays chronologically. Considering Marlowe’s influential Tamburlaine plays, the chapter asks what happens when playgoers watch plays out of...

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Published in: Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England
ISBN: 9781108773775
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2022
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