Theater of a City - The Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642

Informationen zum Autor Jean E. Howard Klappentext Drawing on a wide range of plays! "Theater of a City" shows how the stage imaginatively shaped and responded to the changing face of early modern London. Zusammenfassung Drawing on a wide range of plays! Theater of a City shows how the stage imaginatively shaped and responded to the changing face of early modern London. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Autori: Jean E Howard, Jean E. Howard, HOWARD JEAN E
• Editore: University of pennsylvania pr
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 24.04.2009
• EAN: 9780812220636
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2063-6
• Pagine: 288
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese