<i>Measure for Measure</i> and the Problem of Popularity

Doty, Jeffrey S.

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“…Given the broad aims of the ‘Making Publics’ project, it is ironic that their analyses of Renaissance drama have been so narrow in focus. Predictably, given his cultural import, Shakespeare has dominated research on publics: Hamlet (1600) is a great source of interest to Yachnin (‘Social’, ‘Performing’), and Mullaney and Welch also focus on the play, while Shankar Raman examines The Merchant of Venice (1596), and Doty considers several Shakespeare plays (‘ Richard II ’; ‘ Measure for Measure ’; ‘Popular Politics’). Unlike the others, Yachnin also gestures towards the wider corpus of Renaissance drama, incorporating references to other dramatists in his essays and producing one piece focusing on how Middleton's drama ‘fashioned a public space were one did not exist before’ (‘Playing’ 32), but future work should examine the variety of the Renaissance stage in greater detail.…”

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The Politics of Privacy and the Renaissance Public Stage

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This article examines the politics of privacy and the public drama of the English Renaissance commercial stage. It surveys some recent critical approaches towards the study of privacy and politics including analyses of a supposed early modern public sphere. The article then attends to studies focusing on Renaissance drama and urges that the study of political privacy be extended beyond domesticity. The essay contends that a wider examination of the corpus of public drama in the English Renaissance is necessary. Shakespeare's plays often take centre stage in critical discussions, but complex concepts like privacy and publicity ought to be explored in reference to the diverse range of plays written for the Renaissance theatres. To illustrate the benefits of exploring the wider Renaissance corpus, the article ends by discussing politics and privacy in the neglected tragedy Soliman and Perseda.

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Measure for Measure and the Problem of Popularity

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