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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... Social Tensions Contained 3 Louis A. Montrose , A Kingdom of Shadows Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday Paul S. Seaver , The Artisanal World page x xii XV I 17 355 55 6885 87 888 ΙΟΙ David Bevington , Theatre as Holiday 4 John ...
... Social Tensions Contained 3 Louis A. Montrose , A Kingdom of Shadows Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday Paul S. Seaver , The Artisanal World page x xii XV I 17 355 55 6885 87 888 ΙΟΙ David Bevington , Theatre as Holiday 4 John ...
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... Social 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 ...
... Social 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 ...
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... social categorisation . David L. Smith is Fellow , Director of Studies in History , and Tutor for Admissions at Selwyn College , Cambridge . His publications include Oliver Cromwell : Politics and Religion in the English Revolution ...
... social categorisation . David L. Smith is Fellow , Director of Studies in History , and Tutor for Admissions at Selwyn College , Cambridge . His publications include Oliver Cromwell : Politics and Religion in the English Revolution ...
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... social , economic and political circumstances that gave rise to ( or accompanied ) the high Renaissance in England . In working out our quarter , the three of us discovered that we were as interested in dramatic aspects of politics as ...
... social , economic and political circumstances that gave rise to ( or accompanied ) the high Renaissance in England . In working out our quarter , the three of us discovered that we were as interested in dramatic aspects of politics as ...
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... social and economic anxieties at the end of Elizabeth's reign led into David Bevington's analysis of political , social and economic conflicts in Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday . And so it went , with numerous inter- ventions during ...
... social and economic anxieties at the end of Elizabeth's reign led into David Bevington's analysis of political , social and economic conflicts in Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday . And so it went , with numerous inter- ventions during ...
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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