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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797529903321

Autore

Kendrick Matthew <1982->

Titolo

At work in the early modern English theater : valuing labor / / Matthew Kendrick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-61147-825-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Disciplina

822/.3093553

Soggetti

English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism

English drama - 17th century - History and criticism

Theater - England - History - 16th century

Theater - England - History - 17th century

Labor in literature

Labor movement - England - History - 16th century

Labor movement - England - History - 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The theater between craft and commodity -- Crafty performance in city comedy: Jonson's Every man in his humour and Chapman, Jonson, and Marston's Eastward ho! -- Casting apprentices in Beaumont's The knight of the burning pestle -- Thinking with the feet in Dekker's The shoemaker's holiday and Rowley's A shoemaker, a gentleman -- Labor and theatrical value on the shakespearean stage: a Midsummer night's dream and The tempest -- Afterword: performing laboring subjectivity.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries from the perspective of the period's radically changing labor relations and the nascent emergence of the English working class. The book offers a new way to approach the period by situating drama at the intersection of early modern theater history and labor history.