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- Shakespeare’s Possible Worlds
- Shakespeare’s Possible Worlds
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- A note on texts
- Part I Entering Playworlds
- 1 Where is the life?
- 2 Purposes
- 3 Embryologies
- 4 Shakespeare the impossible
- 5 Popular theatre and possibility
- 6 Shakespeare v. actor
- 7 Playing to the plot
- 8 Middleton
- 9 Jacobean comi-tragedy
- 10 Everyman tyrant
- Part II Modelling Playworlds
- Part III Suffering Playworlds
- Epilogue: life on the line
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - Popular theatre and possibility
from Part I - Entering Playworlds
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2014
- Shakespeare’s Possible Worlds
- Shakespeare’s Possible Worlds
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- A note on texts
- Part I Entering Playworlds
- 1 Where is the life?
- 2 Purposes
- 3 Embryologies
- 4 Shakespeare the impossible
- 5 Popular theatre and possibility
- 6 Shakespeare v. actor
- 7 Playing to the plot
- 8 Middleton
- 9 Jacobean comi-tragedy
- 10 Everyman tyrant
- Part II Modelling Playworlds
- Part III Suffering Playworlds
- Epilogue: life on the line
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Shakespeare's Possible Worlds , pp. 43 - 55Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014