Further to Andy’s post on story, this post asks questions about the nature and necessity of coherent “story”—and of audiences following “plot”—in early modern commercial dramatic performance.
This post follows up some of the points raised by Andy in his discussion of “story” and early modern theatre as part of his Performing Words series.
This post is part of a series on theatrical words. For an introduction to the series, see Performing words: introduction to a new thread on theatre and language.