The Theatrical City: Culture, Theatre and Politics in London, 1576-1649David L. Smith, Richard Strier, David Bevington This collection of essays adopts a novel, interdisciplinary approach to a diverse group of texts composed in London during the Renaissance. Eight literary scholars and eight historians from two continents have been paired to write companion essays on each text. This original method opens up rich insights into London's social, political, and cultural life which would have eluded members of either discipline working in isolation. 'Theatrical' is taken to be a very flexible term, and is applied to the civic rituals and public spectacles of the capital (for example, the execution of King Charles I) as well as to the elite and popular theatre. The eight texts therefore include historical accounts, political documents and polemical works as well as plays. |
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... Elizabeth going in Procession to Black- friars in 1600 , attributed to Robert Peake . Mr Simon Wing- field - Digby's collection at Sherborne Castle 5 Elizabeth I with a Crescent - Moon Jewel in her Hair , by an unknown artist , 1594-5 ...
... Elizabeth going in Procession to Black- friars in 1600 , attributed to Robert Peake . Mr Simon Wing- field - Digby's collection at Sherborne Castle 5 Elizabeth I with a Crescent - Moon Jewel in her Hair , by an unknown artist , 1594-5 ...
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... Elizabeth I ( 1958 ) , Life in Tudor England ( 1963 ) , and The Tudor Regime ( 1979 ) ; and edited , with John Buxton , New College , Oxford , 1379-1979 ( 1979 ) . He was an editor of the English Historical Review from 1982 until 1992 ...
... Elizabeth I ( 1958 ) , Life in Tudor England ( 1963 ) , and The Tudor Regime ( 1979 ) ; and edited , with John Buxton , New College , Oxford , 1379-1979 ( 1979 ) . He was an editor of the English Historical Review from 1982 until 1992 ...
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... Elizabeth's reign led into David Bevington's analysis of political , social and economic conflicts in Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday . And so it went , with numerous inter- ventions during the lectures from the other instructors , the ...
... Elizabeth's reign led into David Bevington's analysis of political , social and economic conflicts in Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday . And so it went , with numerous inter- ventions during the lectures from the other instructors , the ...
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... Elizabeth herself . Lawrence Manley too connects Stow's Survey to ceremonial and theatrical representation , and sees in Stow the paradox of a conservative response to the erosion of late medieval traditions of hospitality coexisting ...
... Elizabeth herself . Lawrence Manley too connects Stow's Survey to ceremonial and theatrical representation , and sees in Stow the paradox of a conservative response to the erosion of late medieval traditions of hospitality coexisting ...
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... Elizabeth's . In both , ritual and display intersect with policy - making and patronage . Even if , as Williams argues , the marriages of A Midsummer Night's Dream need not point to a specific occasion in the 1590s , they do celebrate ...
... Elizabeth's . In both , ritual and display intersect with policy - making and patronage . Even if , as Williams argues , the marriages of A Midsummer Night's Dream need not point to a specific occasion in the 1590s , they do celebrate ...
Contents
John Stows Survey of London | 17 |
Of Sites and Rites | 35 |
Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream | 55 |
A Kingdom of Shadows | 68 |
Thomas Dekkers The Shoemakers Holiday | 87 |
Theatre as Holiday | 101 |
John Marstons The Fawn | 117 |
Flattering Courtly Desire | 137 |
Of Mire and Authorship | 170 |
Philip Massingers A New Way to Pay Old Debts | 183 |
The Outsider as Insider | 193 |
The Root and Branch Petition and the Grand Remonstrance | 209 |
From Diagnosis to Operation | 224 |
John Miltons Eikonoklastes | 245 |
The Dissemination of the King | 260 |
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