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Lauren Robertson's Entertaining Uncertainty In The Early Modern Theatre

New Books in the Arts and Sciences

August 14, 2023

In episode five of the new season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater: Stage Spectacle and Audience Response by Lauren Robertson. This original study shows that the theater of Shakespeare and his contemporaries responded to the crises of knowledge that roiled through early modern England by rendering them spectacular.