ACTING AMISS: TOWARDS A HISTORY OF ACTORLY CRAFT AND PLAYHOUSE JUDGEMENT.

This chapter argues that early modern playgoers habitually judged actorly craft, a mode of engagement often associated exclusively with play-makers. It also traces a wider culture of Shakespearean playgoing in which pleasure and judgement were not separate responses, bu t rather two components of an individual playgoer's engagements with drama. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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