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Theatre, community, and civic engagement in Jacobean London /

Taking to heart Thomas Heywood's claim that plays "persuade men to humanity and good life, instruct them in civility and good manners, showing them the fruits of honesty, and the end of villainy," Mark Bayer's captivating new study argues that the early modern London theatre was...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bayer, Mark, 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2011.
Colección:Studies in theatre history and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Theatre and social capital
  • Rethinking city and suburb
  • The public theatres and their communities
  • Religious communities at London's northern playhouses
  • The spectacle of history at the Red Bull
  • The Clerkenwell riot and its aftermath
  • Epilogue: After 1642.