Poverty & charity in early modern theater and performance /Robert Henke.

Henke, Robert, 1955-

Poverty & charity in early modern theater and performance /Robert Henke. Poverty and charity in early modern theater and performance - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (xiii, 198 pages). - Studies in theatre history and culture .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Historical Attitudes, Policies, and Practices -- From Augsburg to Edgar: Poor Tom and the Continental Beggar Catalogues -- Cheap Print and the Performance of Poverty -- Ruzante: Necessity and Invention -- The Commedia dell'Arte: Poverty at the Margins -- Shakespeare.



9781609383626


European drama--History and criticism.--Renaissance, 1450-1600
Theater--History.--Europe
Poverty in literature.
Charity in literature.


Electronic Books.

PN1791 / .P684 2015