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Jean E. Howard Theater of a City (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Theater of a City
- Publication Name
- Theater of a City
- Title
- Theater of a City
- Subtitle
- The Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0812220633
- EAN
- 9780812220636
- ISBN
- 9780812220636
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Genre
- Drama, Literary Criticism, Performing Arts
- Release Date
- 24/04/2009
- Release Year
- 2009
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Type
- Textbook
- Topic
- Drama, Theater / History & Criticism, Shakespeare
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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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 material arena in which social relations are regulated, urban problems negotiated, and city space rendered socially intelligible. Rather than simply describing London, the stage participated in interpreting it and giving it social meaning. Each chapter of this book focuses on a particular place within the city--the Royal Exchange, the Counters, London's whorehouses, and its academies of manners--and examines the theater's role in creating distinctive narratives about each. In these stories, specific locations are transformed into venues defined by particular kinds of interactions, whether between citizen and alien, debtor and creditor, prostitute and client, or dancing master and country gentleman. Collectively, they suggest how city space could be used and by whom, and they make place the arena for addressing pressing urban problems: demographic change and the influx of foreigners and strangers into the city; new ways of making money and losing it; changing gender roles within the metropolis; and the rise of a distinctive "town culture" in the West End. Drawing on a wide range of familiar and little-studied plays from four decades of a defining era of theater history, Theater of a City shows how the stage imaginatively shaped and responded to the changing face of early modern London.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10
0812220633
ISBN-13
9780812220636
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71707042
Product Key Features
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Drama, Theater / History & Criticism, Shakespeare
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Genre
Drama, Literary Criticism, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn2596.L6h597 2009
Reviews
"A vitally important contribution to our understanding of the construction of identities in the emerging London metropolis."- Journal of British Studies, "Howard's superb book . . . remakes the way we think of or read about this period of theater history in which London played such an important role."-- Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, "Howard's superb book . . . remakes the way we think of or read about this period of theater history in which London played such an important role."--Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, A vitally important contribution to our understanding of the construction of identities in the emerging London metropolis., "A vitally important contribution to our understanding of the construction of identities in the emerging London metropolis."-- Journal of British Studies, "A vitally important contribution to our understanding of the construction of identities in the emerging London metropolis."--Journal of British Studies, Howard's superb book . . . remakes the way we think of or read about this period of theater history in which London played such an important role., "Howard's superb book . . . remakes the way we think of or read about this period of theater history in which London played such an important role."- Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
Publication Name
Theater of a City : the Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642
Table of Content
Introduction 1. Staging Commercial London: The Royal Exchange 2. Credit, Incarceration, and Performance: Staging London's Debtors' Prisons 3. (W)holesaling: Bawdy Houses and Whore Plots in the Drama's Staging of London 4. Ballrooms and Academies: Producing the Cosmopolitan Body in West End London Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
Copyright Date
2007
Target Audience
College Audience
Dewey Decimal
792.0942109032
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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