Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater: Stage Spectacle and Audience Response
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/aaao5/
Author:
	Robertson, Lauren.
Type:
	Book Monograph
Year:
	2023
Publication Information:
	Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. xi + 258 pp.
Annotation:
	Argues early modern theatre engaged its audiences by "actively and repeatedly entangling its spectators in uncertainty." Explores indeterminacy of theatrical death through figure of stage corpses (seemingly lifeless but holding possibility of reanimation), through reading of 1 Henry IV and King Lear. Explains how history plays such as Richard II troubled accepted notions of historical past. 
Language:
	English
Reviews:
	West, William N. Shakespeare Studies 52 (2024): 261-69.
Tags:
	1 Henry IV, King Lear, Richard II, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism
WSB Update:
	Spring 2025
WSB Record Number:
	aaao5