Download or read book Theatrical Legitimation written by Timothy Murray and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murray here provides a poststructural analysis of three frameworks of 17th-century dramatic and literary criticism--authorship, patronage, and spectatorship--and examines different strategies of "legitimating" theatre, all of which illustrate the period's broader ideological concern with the "allegory of genius."