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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... especially William Davies . We owe thanks to the staffs of all the archives , libraries and museums listed in the Acknowledgements , and especially to Jean Miller and Barbara Mowat at the Folger Shakespeare Library . Most of our ...
... especially William Davies . We owe thanks to the staffs of all the archives , libraries and museums listed in the Acknowledgements , and especially to Jean Miller and Barbara Mowat at the Folger Shakespeare Library . Most of our ...
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... especially unable to measure the worth of new forms of charity ( by no means all of them institutionalised and bureaucratic ) that were taking the place of more traditional social obligations . Archer shows Stow's ambivalence to be ...
... especially unable to measure the worth of new forms of charity ( by no means all of them institutionalised and bureaucratic ) that were taking the place of more traditional social obligations . Archer shows Stow's ambivalence to be ...
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... especially Grocers held a dominant position . The forbidding Sir Roger Oatley in Dekker's play is not a Grocer by accident . Dekker's vision of Simon Eyre is of a self - made , successful entrepreneur whose unhistorical rise to the top ...
... especially Grocers held a dominant position . The forbidding Sir Roger Oatley in Dekker's play is not a Grocer by accident . Dekker's vision of Simon Eyre is of a self - made , successful entrepreneur whose unhistorical rise to the top ...
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... especially in its existence on the public stage in 1614 . She argues that Jonson is fascinated as well as repelled both by licence and by Puritanism . She sees Jonson as partaking of the full ambivalence of the location of the theatres ...
... especially in its existence on the public stage in 1614 . She argues that Jonson is fascinated as well as repelled both by licence and by Puritanism . She sees Jonson as partaking of the full ambivalence of the location of the theatres ...
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... especially true in England in the Tudor - Stuart period . When a wealthy merchant buys land in the country , what happens to traditional status ? Moreover , as Lindley points out , not only land but aristocratic titles , and even wives ...
... especially true in England in the Tudor - Stuart period . When a wealthy merchant buys land in the country , what happens to traditional status ? Moreover , as Lindley points out , not only land but aristocratic titles , and even wives ...
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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