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.