Work and play on the Shakespearean stage /

Time and again, early modern plays show people at work: shoemaking, grave-digging, and professional acting are just some of the forms of labour that theatregoers could have seen depicted on stage in 1599 and 1600. Tom Rutter demonstrates how such representations were shaped by the theatre's own...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rutter, Tom
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Temas:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Characters.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616
1500-1600
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism.
Work in literature.
Play in literature.
Professions in literature.
Literature and society > England > History > 16th century.
Acting in literature.
Labor in literature.
Théâtre anglais > 16e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Travail dans la littérature.
Jeu dans la littérature.
Professions libérales dans la littérature.
Littérature et société > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Art dramatique dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Shakespeare.
DRAMA > Shakespeare.
Characters and characteristics.
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan.
Literature and society.
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Work in sixteenth-century England
  • 'Vpon the weke daies and worke daies at conuenient times' : acting as work in Elizabethan England
  • 'Though he be a king, yet he must labour' : work and nobility in Shakespeare's histories
  • 'We may shut vp our shops, and make holiday' : workers and playhouses, 1599-1601
  • 'Work upon that now!' : labour and status on the stage, 1599-1610.

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