Studies in Elizabethan Audience Response to the Theatre: How Easy Is a Bush Suppos’d a Bear? Actor and Character in the Elizabe

The first of an undisclosed number of parts, subtitled How Easy Is a Bush Suppos'd a Bear? Actor and Character in the Elizabethan Viewer's Mind. Analyzes in detail the documentation on how spectators responded to Elizabethan theater. Concludes that they were primarily interested in the characters' ideal presence, because of contemporary ideas about acting and visual perception. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.