Title: The Making of a Popular Repertory: Hollywood and the Elizabethans
Abstract: In this essay I wish to consider the strange symmetry that connects the two most successful periods of popular drama in the English-speaking world, the London public drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the Hollywood filmed drama of the twentieth century1 — a symmetry that, found under such clearly differentiated circumstances, may tempt us to believe that popular drama is a specific genre. But my aim is not to pursue such possibility; I seek only to present evidence and leave conclusions to look after themselves. I discuss the evidence under two headings: first I shall deal with the organisational structure of the drama in both periods and then I discuss what is derivative from this, the dramaturgy of plays produced inside the organisation.KeywordsPopular TheatreMoral SuperioritySpecific GenrePopular EntertainmentPlayer TalkThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Publication Year: 1997
Publication Date: 1997-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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