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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... shows us why Stow is so reluctant to see old customs fall away and so ill equipped to comprehend London's resilience in coping with social change and even with poverty . Stow is especially unable to measure the worth of new forms of ...
... shows us why Stow is so reluctant to see old customs fall away and so ill equipped to comprehend London's resilience in coping with social change and even with poverty . Stow is especially unable to measure the worth of new forms of ...
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... shows us that the festivals of Theseus's court are much like those of Elizabeth's . In both , ritual and display intersect with policy - making and patronage . Even if , as Williams argues , the marriages of A Midsummer Night's Dream ...
... shows us that the festivals of Theseus's court are much like those of Elizabeth's . In both , ritual and display intersect with policy - making and patronage . Even if , as Williams argues , the marriages of A Midsummer Night's Dream ...
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... shows that Shakespeare's presentation of such a transformation and of dependent relationships in a royal or ducal court is not without an element of critique . Bottom's allusion to 1 Corinthians in his comically jumbled evocation of ' a ...
... shows that Shakespeare's presentation of such a transformation and of dependent relationships in a royal or ducal court is not without an element of critique . Bottom's allusion to 1 Corinthians in his comically jumbled evocation of ' a ...
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... shows is that if Eyre had been a shoemaker , he could never have become lord mayor of London . No shoemaker ever did . Seaver shows that the guild that included shoe- makers , the Cordwainers , cut a paltry figure in London's highly ...
... shows is that if Eyre had been a shoemaker , he could never have become lord mayor of London . No shoemaker ever did . Seaver shows that the guild that included shoe- makers , the Cordwainers , cut a paltry figure in London's highly ...
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... shows that this balancing of apparent opposites pervades the play . The central figure , Eyre , is ebullient and shystering , generous and mistrustful , open and devious . All is jollity with him when it is not pure calculation . Eyre's ...
... shows that this balancing of apparent opposites pervades the play . The central figure , Eyre , is ebullient and shystering , generous and mistrustful , open and devious . All is jollity with him when it is not pure calculation . Eyre's ...
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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