Abstract
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 the expected order. While there is clear evidence that Tamburlaine had cultural cachet at this time, it does not follow, as is generally assumed, that all audience members would have encountered Tamburlaine before other, related plays.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England |
| Editors | Simon Smith, Emma Whipday |
| Place of Publication | Cambridge |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Chapter | 8 |
| Pages | 161-180 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781108773775 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781108489058 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 17 Mar 2022 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- Marlowe
- playgoing
- chronology
- Henslowe
- Admiral's Men
- Rose Playhouse
- Robert Greene
- George Peele
- lost plays
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Calvin and G. Rose Hoffman Prize for Distinguished Publication on Christopher Marlowe
Price, Eoin (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Scholarship