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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... until 1992. Environed with War , his volume on England 1547-1603 for the New Oxford History of England , is due to appear in 1995 . Preface As our Introduction indicates , this book grew out xiv Notes on Contributors.
... until 1992. Environed with War , his volume on England 1547-1603 for the New Oxford History of England , is due to appear in 1995 . Preface As our Introduction indicates , this book grew out xiv Notes on Contributors.
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... appears on the scene . The play's happy ending resolves all these tensions in a way that , as Seaver leads us to see , would have struck its original audience as a vision as ' rare ' and fantastical as Bottom's . David Bevington surveys ...
... appears on the scene . The play's happy ending resolves all these tensions in a way that , as Seaver leads us to see , would have struck its original audience as a vision as ' rare ' and fantastical as Bottom's . David Bevington surveys ...
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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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