ISBN: 9780812239782

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 synerg… More...

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 urban social relations are regulated, urban problems negotiated, and city space rendered socially intelligible. Rather than describing London, then, 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 significant social spaces, that is, 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, these stories 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. Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642 Howard, Jean E., University of Pennsylvania Press<

1642, ISBN: 0812239784

[SR: 1912078], Gebundene Ausgabe, [EAN: 9780812239782], University of Pennsylvania Press, Englisch, Englisch, Englisch, University of Pennsylvania Press, Book, University of Pennsylvania … More...

[SR: 1912078], Gebundene Ausgabe, [EAN: 9780812239782], University of Pennsylvania Press, Englisch, Englisch, Englisch, University of Pennsylvania Press, Book, University of Pennsylvania Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, 60262011, Theater, 60261011, Darstellende Künste, 59670011, Kunst & Fotografie, 54071011, Genres, 52044011, Fremdsprachige Bücher, 66172011, Geschichte, 66159011, Dramatik, 66034011, Belletristik, 54071011, Genres, 52044011, Fremdsprachige Bücher, 68216011, Shakespeare, 68215011, Britisch, 68085011, Weltliteratur, 66034011, Belletristik, 54071011, Genres, 52044011, Fremdsprachige Bücher, 208622031, Gebundene Ausgabe, 208621031, Format (binding_browse-bin), 366250011, Refinements, 52044011, Fremdsprachige Bücher<

ISBN: 0812239784

[SR: 2673659], Gebundene Ausgabe, [EAN: 9780812239782], University of Pennsylvania Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, Book, [PU: University of Pennsylvania Press], University of Pen… More...

[SR: 2673659], Gebundene Ausgabe, [EAN: 9780812239782], University of Pennsylvania Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, Book, [PU: University of Pennsylvania Press], University of Pennsylvania Press, 60262011, Theater, 60261011, Darstellende Künste, 59670011, Kunst & Fotografie, 54071011, Genres, 52044011, Fremdsprachige Bücher, 66172011, Geschichte, 66159011, Dramatik, 66034011, Belletristik, 54071011, Genres, 52044011, Fremdsprachige Bücher, 68216011, Shakespeare, 68215011, Britisch, 68085011, Weltliteratur, 66034011, Belletristik, 54071011, Genres, 52044011, Fremdsprachige Bücher<

2007, ISBN: 0812239784

Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania 2007, 0812239784 As New, Hardcover, 8vo, 276 pp. AS NEW in like dj. In mylar. As New Hardcover As New 8vo