Arthur F. Kinney 
Shakespeare by Stages 
An Historical Introduction

In this engaging text, Arthur Kinney introduces students to
Shakespeare’s plays in the context of Elizabethan and
Jacobean theater.

* * Introduces students to Shakespeare’s plays in the context of
Elizabethan and Jacobean theater.

* Focuses on the material conditions of playing and of
playgoing.

* Covers venues, audiences, actors, society, government and
regulation.

* Each topic is considered in relation to a selection of
Shakespeare’s plays.

* Shows students how the plays and the context in which they were
produced illuminate one another.

Cuprins

List of Figures.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

List of Illustrations.

1. Stages.

2. Players.

3. Playgoers.

4. Equipment.

5. Reactions.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index

Despre autor

Arthur F. Kinney is Copeland Professor of Literary History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Director of the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies. He is the editor of Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments (Blackwell, 1999), A Companion to Renaissance Drama (Blackwell, 2002) and of the journal English Literary Renaissance. His other works include Elizabethan Backgrounds (Second Edition, 1994), Rogues, Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars (Second Edition, 1995), Humanist Poetics (1986), and Lies Like Truth: Shakespeare, Macbeth, and the Cultural Moment (2001).