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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Fordham University Press, (c)2016.Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823267903
  • 9780823267897
  • 9780823267880
  • 9780823272426
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PR658 .P733 2016
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
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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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction PR658.58 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn941700469

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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