Greenes Tu quoque, or The cittie gallant [a comedy].
Author : John Cooke
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Page : 102 pages
File Size : 40,82 MB
Release : 1614
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Author : John Cooke
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Page : 102 pages
File Size : 40,82 MB
Release : 1614
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Author : John Cooke
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,5 MB
Release : 1628
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Author : Robert Dodsley
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Page : 542 pages
File Size : 46,57 MB
Release : 1780
Category : English drama
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Page : 540 pages
File Size : 46,71 MB
Release : 1780
Category : English drama
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Author : Jean E. Howard
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0812202309
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.
Author : James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
Publisher : London : J.R. Smith
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
Release : 1860
Category : English drama
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Author : James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,59 MB
Release : 1860
Category : English drama
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Page : 542 pages
File Size : 31,19 MB
Release : 1886
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Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Page : 980 pages
File Size : 27,1 MB
Release : 1886
Category : English literature
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Page : 810 pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 1881
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