Blackfriars in Early Modern London - Theater, Church, and Neighborhood

Blackfriars: Playhouse, Church, and Neighborhood in Early Modern London is a cultural history of an urban enclave best known in the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for the juxtaposition of theater and godly preaching.

List of contents

• Part I: Contexts


• Introduction


• 1: Precinct: Built Environment and Social Mix


• 2: Liberty: Governance, Politics, and Identity


• 3: Parish: Religion


• Part II: Theater and Church


• 4: Beginnings: Theater and Recreation in the Blackfriars before the 1590s


• 5: Early Troubles: From the 1596 Petition to Ben Jonson at the Second Blackfriars Playhouse


• 6: 'Glancing or Girding at the Present Government': Dissident Plays and Sermons, 1600-1609


• 7: Living with a Playhouse: Integration and Opposition, 1608-1619


• Part III: Topical Case Studies


• 8: 'Sober, Scurvy [and] Precise Neighbours': Ben Jonson, the Blackfriars, and The Alchemist


• 9: Remembering the Catholic Blackfriars


• 10: Gouge, the Spanish Match, and Blackfriars 'Spanish' Plays


• Epilogue

About the author

Christopher Highley is a Professor of English at Ohio State University. He is the author of Catholics Writing the Nation in Early Modern Britain and Ireland (OUP, 2008)

Summary

Blackfriars: Playhouse, Church, and Neighborhood in Early Modern London is a cultural history of an urban enclave best known in the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for the juxtaposition of theater and godly preaching.

Additional text

Blackfriars in Early Modern London convincingly challenges received wisdom in so many ways, broad and picayune, that it would be impossible to catalogue them here. At every turn, it reintegrates our idea of the drama of the Blackfriars into the lived experience of the neighborhood's citizens in often surprising ways...Highley's book asks us to reconsider the story we think we know about the conditions and output of the Blackfriars stages with regard to their location in this idiosyncratic London neighborhood.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Highley, Christopher (Professor of English Highley, Highley Christopher
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9780192846976
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284697-6
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Early Modern Literary Geographies; Early Modern Literary Geograph
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, RELIGION / Christianity / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of Religion, Literary studies: general, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, Literary studies: plays and playwrights