The Shoemaker's Holiday
The Shoemaker's Holiday

Author: Thomas Dekker

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1999-09-11

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780719030994

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Thomas 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.

Imagining Early Modern London
Imagining Early Modern London

Author: J. F. Merritt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-08-30

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780521773461

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The 120 years that separate the first publication of John Stow's famous Survey of London in 1598 from John Strype's enormous new edition of the same work in 1720 witnessed London's transformation into a sprawling augustan metropolis, very different from the compact medieval city so lovingly charted in the pages of Stow. Imagining Early Modern London takes Stow's classic account of the Elizabethan city as a starting point for an examination of how generations of very different Londoners - men and women, antiquaries, merchants, skilled craftsmen, labourers and beggars - experienced and understood the dramatically changing city. A series of interdisciplinary essays explore the ways in which Londoners interpreted and memorialized their past: how individuals located themselves mentally, socially and geographically within the city, and how far the capital's growth was believed to have a moral influence upon its inhabitants.

The Theatrical City
The Theatrical City

Author: David L. Smith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-12-18

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780521526159

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A collection of interdisciplinary essays on the 'theatrical' in Renaissance London.