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Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642

2007 University of Pennsylvania Press ;ISBN: 9780812220636 ;ISBN: 0812220633 ;ISBN: 9780812202304 ;ISBN: 0812202309 ;EISBN: 9780812202304 ;EISBN: 0812202309 ;DOI: 10.9783/9780812202304 ;OCLC: 824104151 ;LCCallNum: PN2596.L6H597 2006

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  • Title:
    Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642
  • Author: Howard, Jean E
  • Subjects: 16th century ; 17th century ; Drama ; England ; English drama ; English drama (Comedy) ; English drama (Comedy)-History and criticism ; History ; History and criticism ; Language & Literature ; LITERARY CRITICISM ; London ; Shakespeare ; Theater ; Theater and society ; Theater-England-London-History-16th century ; Theater-England-London-History-17th century ; Theaters ; Theaters-England-London-History-16th century ; Theaters-England-London-History-17th century
  • Description: Arguing that the commercial stage depended on the unprecedented demographic growth and commercial vibrancy of London to fuel its own development, Jean E. Howard posits a particular synergy between the early modern stage and the city in which it flourished. In London comedy, place functions as the material arena in which social relations are regulated, urban problems negotiated, and city space rendered socially intelligible. Rather than simply describing London, the stage participated in interpreting it and giving it social meaning. Each chapter of this book focuses on a particular place within the city-the Royal Exchange, the Counters, London's whorehouses, and its academies of manners-and examines the theater's role in creating distinctive narratives about each. In these stories, specific locations are transformed into venues defined by particular kinds of interactions, whether between citizen and alien, debtor and creditor, prostitute and client, or dancing master and country gentleman. Collectively, they suggest how city space could be used and by whom, and they make place the arena for addressing pressing urban problems: demographic change and the influx of foreigners and strangers into the city; new ways of making money and losing it; changing gender roles within the metropolis; and the rise of a distinctive "town culture" in the West End. Drawing on a wide range of familiar and little-studied plays from four decades of a defining era of theater history,Theater of a Cityshows how the stage imaginatively shaped and responded to the changing face of early modern London.
  • Publisher: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc
  • Creation Date: 2011
  • Format: 288
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780812220636
    ISBN: 0812220633
    ISBN: 9780812202304
    ISBN: 0812202309
    EISBN: 9780812202304
    EISBN: 0812202309
    DOI: 10.9783/9780812202304
    OCLC: 824104151
    LCCallNum: PN2596.L6H597 2006
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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