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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... present book . Our plan , then as now , was to employ the term ' theatrical ' in a fairly plastic sense , covering popular as well as elite theatre and even ' dramatic ' spectacles such as the execution of Charles I. We decided that ...
... present book . Our plan , then as now , was to employ the term ' theatrical ' in a fairly plastic sense , covering popular as well as elite theatre and even ' dramatic ' spectacles such as the execution of Charles I. We decided that ...
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... presents us with two different courts , and two courts within a single court . Stressing the connection of the play to Queen Anne and her circle , Peck argues that The Fawn's origin in this circle partly accounts for its presentation of ...
... presents us with two different courts , and two courts within a single court . Stressing the connection of the play to Queen Anne and her circle , Peck argues that The Fawn's origin in this circle partly accounts for its presentation of ...
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... present in themselves . Marcus leaves us with a sense that both the Puritan and the theatre were highly cathected and ambivalent presences in the culture of the early Stuart world . Our next pair of essays focuses on a play written and ...
... present in themselves . Marcus leaves us with a sense that both the Puritan and the theatre were highly cathected and ambivalent presences in the culture of the early Stuart world . Our next pair of essays focuses on a play written and ...
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... present volume is profoundly uninterested in the difference between ' documents ' and ' monuments ' . The two ' documents ' now under discussion are not only evidence about the changing atmosphere of the capital between 1640 and 1642 ...
... present volume is profoundly uninterested in the difference between ' documents ' and ' monuments ' . The two ' documents ' now under discussion are not only evidence about the changing atmosphere of the capital between 1640 and 1642 ...
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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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