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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... subjects of investigation still remained Florence and Leipzig . In the spring , the original conception was fully borne out : a cross - disciplinary approach to London through a study of its drama and other literary genres in the ...
... subjects of investigation still remained Florence and Leipzig . In the spring , the original conception was fully borne out : a cross - disciplinary approach to London through a study of its drama and other literary genres in the ...
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... subjects and to have Richard Strier and David Bevington take turns presenting texts . After David Smith had talked about the Elizabethan court , Richard Strier followed with a session on A Midsummer Night's Dream ; David Smith's lecture ...
... subjects and to have Richard Strier and David Bevington take turns presenting texts . After David Smith had talked about the Elizabethan court , Richard Strier followed with a session on A Midsummer Night's Dream ; David Smith's lecture ...
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... subjects is at the heart of A Midsummer Night's Dream's fascination with unstable hierarchies and categories of gender , rank and age . Bottom , for Montrose , is an exaggeratedly comic representation of those many males in Elizabeth's ...
... subjects is at the heart of A Midsummer Night's Dream's fascination with unstable hierarchies and categories of gender , rank and age . Bottom , for Montrose , is an exaggeratedly comic representation of those many males in Elizabeth's ...
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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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