Theater of a City : : The Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642 / / Jean E. Howard.
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 mat...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 18 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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