Practicing the City : : Early Modern London on Stage / / Nina Levine.

In late-sixteenth-century London, the commercial theaters undertook a novel experiment, fueling a fashion for plays that trafficked in the contemporary urban scene. But beyond the stage's representing the everyday activities of the expanding metropolis, its unprecedented urban turn introduced a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Presupposing the Stage
  • 1. Extending Credit and the Henry IV Plays
  • 2. Differentiating Collaboration: Protest and Playwriting and Sir Thomas More
  • 3. Trading in Tongues: Language Lessons and Englishmen for My Money
  • 4. The Place of the Present: Making Time and The Roaring Girl
  • Epilogue: The Place of the Spectator
  • Notes
  • Index