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Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion: Playhouses and Playgoers in Elizabethan England

William West (NEH, 2012-13)

William N. West proposes a new account of the kind of participatory entertainment expected by the actors and the audience during the careers of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.