The Sempster's Tale
Author: Margaret Frazer
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2007-01-02
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780425210499
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Author: Margaret Frazer
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2007-01-02
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780425210499
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Author: William Henry Giles Kingston
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Published: 1870
Total Pages: 474
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 376
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 666
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Published: 1852
Total Pages: 656
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Dekker
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1999-09-11
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780719030994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday is one of the most popular of Elizabethan plays--entertaining, racy and vivid in its characterization. Revealing a vital portrait of Elizabethan London and the interaction of social classes within the city, its social commentary is on the whole optimistic, though darker tones are discernible. The play has had a lively history of performance on both the professional and amateur stage.
Author: Richard Corballis
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jean E. Howard
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2011-06-03
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0812202309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArguing that the commercial stage depended on the unprecedented demographic growth and commercial vibrancy of London to fuel its own development, Jean E. Howard posits a particular synergy between the early modern stage and the city in which it flourished. In London comedy, place functions as the material arena in which social relations are regulated, urban problems negotiated, and city space rendered socially intelligible. Rather than simply describing London, the stage participated in interpreting it and giving it social meaning. Each chapter of this book focuses on a particular place within the city—the Royal Exchange, the Counters, London's whorehouses, and its academies of manners—and examines the theater's role in creating distinctive narratives about each. In these stories, specific locations are transformed into venues defined by particular kinds of interactions, whether between citizen and alien, debtor and creditor, prostitute and client, or dancing master and country gentleman. Collectively, they suggest how city space could be used and by whom, and they make place the arena for addressing pressing urban problems: demographic change and the influx of foreigners and strangers into the city; new ways of making money and losing it; changing gender roles within the metropolis; and the rise of a distinctive "town culture" in the West End. Drawing on a wide range of familiar and little-studied plays from four decades of a defining era of theater history, Theater of a City shows how the stage imaginatively shaped and responded to the changing face of early modern London.