{"product_id":"a-monster-with-a-thousand-hands-9780812250329","title":"A Monster with a Thousand Hands","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Monster with a Thousand Hands makes visible a figure that has been largely overlooked in early modern scholarship on theater and audiences: the discursive spectator, an entity distinct from the actual bodies attending early modern English playhouses. Amy J. Rodgers demonstrates how the English commercial theater's rapid development and prosperity altered the lexicon for describing theatergoers and the processes of engagement that the theater was believed to cultivate. In turn, these changes influenced and produced a cultural projection-the spectator-a figure generated by social practices rather than a faithful recording of those who attended the theater. The early modern discursive spectator did not merely develop alongside the phenomenological one, but played as significant a role in shaping early modern viewers and viewing practices as did changes to staging technologies, exhibition practices, and generic experimentation.   While audience and film studies have theorized the spectat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A brilliant, thoughtful, and innovative book. Writing lucidly and elegantly, Amy J. Rodgers establishes not only the possibility but also the necessity of our coming to understand the ways in which the notion of audience and spectatorship was conceptualized, discussed, and imagined during the early modern period.\" * Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Discursive Iterations\/Fearful Symmetries\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Toward a Theory of Discursive Spectatorship\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Blood of the Muses: Violent Spectatorship and Authorial Response in \u003ci\u003eThe Knight of the Burning Pestle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Book of Praises: The Spectator as Reader in Shakespeare's Romances\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The Language of Looking: Making Senses Speak in Jonsonian Masque\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. The Discursive Spectator and the Question of History\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405737763159,"sku":"9780812250329","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812250329.jpg?v=1730493436","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-monster-with-a-thousand-hands-9780812250329","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}