Practicing the city : early modern London on stage / Nina Levine.

By:

Levine, Nina S, 1950- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780823267903
9780823267897
9780823267880
9780823272426

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

PR658 .P733 2016

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Contents:

Extending credit and the Henry IV plays -- Differentiating collaboration: protest and playwriting and Sir Thomas More -- Trading in tongues: language lessons and Englishmen for my money -- The place of the present: making time and The roaring girl -- Epilogue: the place of The spectator.

Summary: This volume explores the theatre's unprecedented focus on the contemporary city in early modern London. It examines plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries to consider how this new, experimental theatre created a medium for urban plurality, opening up a reflexive space within which diverse populations might begin to practice the city.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: presupposing the stage -- Extending credit and the Henry IV plays -- Differentiating collaboration: protest and playwriting and Sir Thomas More -- Trading in tongues: language lessons and Englishmen for my money -- The place of the present: making time and The roaring girl -- Epilogue: the place of The spectator.

This volume explores the theatre's unprecedented focus on the contemporary city in early modern London. It examines plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries to consider how this new, experimental theatre created a medium for urban plurality, opening up a reflexive space within which diverse populations might begin to practice the city.

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