London in Early Modern English Drama - Representing the Built Environment

'The chief virtue of the work is the encyclopaedic knowledge of drama that the author brings to his study. Readers unfamiliar with the range of dramatic works that utilise or refer to the city in some way will encounter references to some new materials between these pages.' - Andrew Gordon, The Review of English Studies Informationen zum Autor DARRYLL GRANTLEY teaches in the School of Drama, Film and Visual Arts at the University of Kent, UK, with research interests that extend across both the late medieval and early modern periods. He has written and edited several books with a particular focus on theatre in social and cultural history. Klappentext This book explores the changing representation on the early modern stage of the built environment of London. It covers a period in which the city underwent rapid growth to become the country's first metropolis, and it examines how the urban environment becomes part of the frame of reference of the drama that is set there.This book explores the changing representation on the early modern stage of the built environment of London. It covers a period in which the city underwent rapid growth to become the country's first metropolis, and it examines how the urban environment becomes part of the frame of reference of the drama that is set there. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Map of Early Modern London Introduction The Pre-Commercial Theatre Interlude Drama Late Elizabethan Drama Jacobean Drama Caroline Drama Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Acknowledgements Map of Early Modern London Introduction The Pre-Commercial Theatre Interlude Drama Late Elizabethan Drama Jacobean Drama Caroline Drama Conclusion Bibliography Index

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'The chief virtue of the work is the encyclopaedic knowledge of drama that the author brings to his study. Readers unfamiliar with the range of dramatic works that utilise or refer to the city in some way will encounter references to some new materials between these pages.' - Andrew Gordon, The Review of English Studies

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• Authors: D Grantley, D. Grantley, Darryll Grantley
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.04.2008
• EAN: 9780230554290
• ISBN: 978-0-230-55429-0
• No. of pages: 242
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Theater, B, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Theatre Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, Theatre and Performance Arts, European Literature, Theater—History, Theatre History, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literature—Philosophy, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, Theatre and Performance Studies, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, drama;stage;theatre;British and Irish Literature