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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... the contributors presented lectures . The result will be required reading for students and scholars of both English literature and history in the early modern period . The Theatrical City The Theatrical City Culture , Theatre and.
... the contributors presented lectures . The result will be required reading for students and scholars of both English literature and history in the early modern period . The Theatrical City The Theatrical City Culture , Theatre and.
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... Reading and its Discontents ( 1988 ) . More recently , she has wandered into the field of textual studies . Her next book project , Unediting the Renaissance : Shakespeare , Marlowe , Milton , is under contract with Routledge for ...
... Reading and its Discontents ( 1988 ) . More recently , she has wandered into the field of textual studies . Her next book project , Unediting the Renaissance : Shakespeare , Marlowe , Milton , is under contract with Routledge for ...
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... reader of this book , but we might explain that we have modernised all primary sources in matters of spelling and punctuation to provide consistency and ease of reading ; modern editions are sometimes presented in modern spelling and ...
... reader of this book , but we might explain that we have modernised all primary sources in matters of spelling and punctuation to provide consistency and ease of reading ; modern editions are sometimes presented in modern spelling and ...
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... readings of Bartholomew Fair ( and , incidentally , of The Alchemist ) , read- ings which may be thought to ... reading , especially in its existence on the public stage in 1614 . She argues that Jonson is fascinated as well as ...
... readings of Bartholomew Fair ( and , incidentally , of The Alchemist ) , read- ings which may be thought to ... reading , especially in its existence on the public stage in 1614 . She argues that Jonson is fascinated as well as ...
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... readers of the play in a way belied by the happy resolution . Martin Butler's essay complicates our reading of A New Way to Pay Old Debts . He argues that what we see in the play is not a clash between aristocratic and other values but ...
... readers of the play in a way belied by the happy resolution . Martin Butler's essay complicates our reading of A New Way to Pay Old Debts . He argues that what we see in the play is not a clash between aristocratic and other values but ...
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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