Playgoing in Shakespeare's London

Globe: Life in Shakespeare's London

✍ Catharine Arnold 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 Simon & Schuster UK 🌐 English

The life of William Shakespeare, Britain's greatest dramatist, was inextricably linked with the history of London. Together, the great writer and the great city came of age and confronted triumph and tragedy. Triumph came when Shakespeare's company, the Chamberlain's Men, opened the Globe playhouse

Globe: Life in Shakespeare's London

📁 Globe: Life in Shakespeare's London

✍ Arnold, Catharine 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 Simon & Schuster UK 🌐 English

The life of William Shakespeare, Britain's greatest dramatist, was inextricably linked with the history of London. Together, the great writer and the great city came of age and confronted triumph and tragedy. Triumph came when Shakespeare's company, the Chamberlain's Men, opened the Globe playhouse

Shakespeare's London: Everyday Life in L

📁 Shakespeare's London: Everyday Life in London 1580-1616

✍ Stephen Porter 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 Amberley Publishing 🌐 English

Everyday life in the teeming metropolis during William Shakespeare's time in the city. Shakespeare's London was a bustling, teeming metropolis that was growing so rapidly that the government took repeated, and ineffectual, steps to curb its expansion. From contemporary letters, journals

The Privileged Playgoers of Shakespeare'

📁 The Privileged Playgoers of Shakespeare's London, 1576-1642

✍ Ann Jennalie Cook 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 Princeton University Press 🌐 English

Besides documenting the predominant presence of privileged patrons in the audience, the author discusses the shape of the privileged life, the place of the privileged in the social structure, the forces that drew so many of them to London, and the factors that made them such avid theatergoers.</p

Shakespeare in London

📁 Shakespeare in London

✍ Hannah Crawforth; Sarah Dustagheer; Jennifer Young 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare 🌐 English

Shakespeare in London offers a lively and engaging new reading of some of Shakespeare’s major work, informed by close attention to the language of his drama. The focus of the book is on Shakespeare’s London, how it influenced his drama and how he represents it on stage. Taking readers on an imaginat

Shakespeare's London 1613

📁 Shakespeare's London 1613

✍ David M. Bergeron 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 Manchester University Press 🌐 English

Incorporating material published and plays performed, Shakespeare’s London 1613 creates a narrative and analysis of this crucial year. Political events, such as the death of the young Prince of Wales and the marriage of the royal daughter, changed the country forever.

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