The theatrical city : culture, theatre and politics in London, 1576-1649
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
The theatrical city : culture, theatre and politics in London, 1576-1649
Cambridge University Press, 1995
Available at 67 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- List of contributors
- List of illustrations
- Introduction
- 1. John Stow's Survey of London Ian Archer and Lawrence Manley
- 2. Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Penry Williams and Louis A. Montrose
- 3. Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday Paul S. Seaver and David Bevington
- 4. John Marston's The Fawn Linda Levy Peck and Frank Whigham
- 5. Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair Patrick Collinson and Leah S. Marcus
- 6. Philip Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts Keith Lindley and Martin Butler
- 7. The Root and Branch Petition and the Grand Remonstrance David L. Smith and Richard Strier
- 8. John Milton's Eikonoklastes Derek Hirst and Marshall Grossman.
by "Nielsen BookData"