Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion
West, William N.![Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/360/36084766/CHSBZCOP0336084766.jpg)
What if at night at the theaters in Elizabethan England more closely resembled attending a rugby match than sitting in a dark, silent audience, passively witnessing the action on the stage, or closer to going to a rock concert than sitting in front of a large or small screen, quietly and distantly absorbing a film or television drama? In this book, West proposes a new account of what happened in the playhouses of Shakespeare's time, and the ki...