Theater of a City : the Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642.
Annotation 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 function...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Staging Commercial London: The Royal Exchange ; Chapter 2: Credit, Incarceration, and Performance: Staging London's Debtors' Prisons ; Chapter 3: (W)holesaling: Bawdy Houses and Whore Plots in the Drama's Staging of London ; Chapter 4: Ballrooms and Academies: Producing the Cosmopolitan Body in West End London ; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Acknowledgments.