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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 32
Page xii
... Relations in Elizabethan London ( 1991 ) , The History of the Haberdashers ' Company ( 1991 ) , and , with Caroline Barron and Vanessa Harding , Hugh Alley's ' Caveat ' : The Markets of London in 1598 ( 1988 ) . He is currently working ...
... Relations in Elizabethan London ( 1991 ) , The History of the Haberdashers ' Company ( 1991 ) , and , with Caroline Barron and Vanessa Harding , Hugh Alley's ' Caveat ' : The Markets of London in 1598 ( 1988 ) . He is currently working ...
Page 3
... relations between them . Each essay in the volume is , we believe , worthwhile in itself . The ' pairs ' speak to one another ( and sometimes fail to do so ) in ways that we did not and could not mandate , but that we believe to be ...
... relations between them . Each essay in the volume is , we believe , worthwhile in itself . The ' pairs ' speak to one another ( and sometimes fail to do so ) in ways that we did not and could not mandate , but that we believe to be ...
Page 7
... relation to the Urbino of Castiglione's The Courtier . At the same time the play presents an idealised picture of the Duke of Ferrara , who embodies much of the advice in King James's Basilikon Doron ( 1599 ) , a book that was widely ...
... relation to the Urbino of Castiglione's The Courtier . At the same time the play presents an idealised picture of the Duke of Ferrara , who embodies much of the advice in King James's Basilikon Doron ( 1599 ) , a book that was widely ...
Page 10
... relations between neighbours , and the local system of justice ( since at least some Justices of the Peace , in this play , are also for sale ) . Lindley notes the play's happy ending , but suggests that the figure of Overreach , and ...
... relations between neighbours , and the local system of justice ( since at least some Justices of the Peace , in this play , are also for sale ) . Lindley notes the play's happy ending , but suggests that the figure of Overreach , and ...
Page 20
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
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 |
282 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
aldermen aristocratic Article artisans audience authority Bartholomew Fair Cambridge celebration ceremonial Charles Charles's Church citizen civic comedy common contemporary Corpus Christi courtiers courtly culture Dekker's Derek Hirst document drama Duke Dulcimel earl early modern Eikon Alethine Eikon Basilike Eikonoklastes Elizabeth Elizabethan England English essay evil Eyre's father Fawn feast festive flattery Gonzago Grand Remonstrance Hammon hath Hercules History honour Jacobean Jacobean court James John Marston John Morrill John Stow Jonson king king's book Lady Alworth literary livery companies lord mayor Lovell marriage Massinger Midsummer Night's Dream Milton monarch Oatley Overreach Oxford pageants Parasitaster Parliament Petition play play's political present princes Puritan Queen Reformation regicide reign religious Renaissance Richard Strier ritual Roots and Branches royal satire Shakespeare Shoemaker's Holiday shoemakers Simon Eyre social Society Stow Stow's Stuart suggests Survey theatre theatrical Theseus Thomas traditional Tudor Urbino Wellborn William