04200nam 2200637 450 991082782510332120200520144314.01-4962-0487-51-4962-0489-1(CKB)4100000001040411(OCoLC)1003268986(MdBmJHUP)muse59863(MiAaPQ)EBC5143284(Au-PeEL)EBL5143284(CaPaEBR)ebr11465397(EXLCZ)99410000000104041120171208h20182018 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierProducing early modern London a comedy of urban space, 1598-1616 /Kelly J. StageLincoln, [Nebraska] ;London, [England] :University of Nebraska Press,2018.©2018343 pagesEarly Modern Cultural Studies1-4962-0181-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Machine generated contents note: List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "Wat be dis plashe?" Estranged Spaces and Theatrical Places 2. Runaways, Madmen, and Shipwrecks: Westward, Northward, and Eastward Ho 3. Pervasive Space and Urban Tactics: Performing Resistance 4. Strange Hidden Ways: Escaping the City Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index."Producing Early Modern London analyzes theater's use of city spaces and places, showing how the satirical comedies of the early seventeenth century came to embody the city as the city embodied the plays"--Provided by publisher."Early seventeenth-century London playwrights used actual locations in their comedies while simultaneously exploring London as an imagined, ephemeral, urban space. Producing Early Modern London examines this tension between representing place and producing urban space. In analyzing the theater's use of city spaces and places, Kelly J. Stage shows how the satirical comedies of the early seventeenth century came to embody the city as the city embodied the plays. Stage focuses on city plays by George Chapman, Thomas Dekker, William Haughton, Ben Jonson, John Marston, Thomas Middleton, and John Webster. While the conventional labels of "city comedy" or "citizen comedy" have often been applied to these plays, she argues that London comedies defy these genre categorizations because the ruptures, expansions, conflicts, and imperfections of the expanding city became a part of their form. Rather than defining the "city comedy," comedy in this period proved to be the genre of London. As the expansion of London's social space exceeded the strict confines of the "square mile," the city burgeoned into a new metropolis. The satiric comedies of this period became, in effect, playgrounds for urban experimentation. Early seventeenth-century playwrights seized the opportunity to explore the myriad ways in which London worked, taking the expected--a romance plot, a typical father-son conflict, a cross-dressing intrigue--and turning it into a multifaceted, complex story of interaction and proximity."--Provided by publisher.Early modern cultural studies.English drama17th centuryHistory and criticismTheaterEnglandHistory17th centuryPublic spaces in literatureCities and towns in literatureEnglish drama (Comedy)History and criticismLiterature and societyEnglandLondonHistory17th centuryLondon (England)In literatureEnglish dramaHistory and criticism.TheaterHistoryPublic spaces in literature.Cities and towns in literature.English drama (Comedy)History and criticism.Literature and societyHistory822.309358421LIT004120bisacshStage Kelly J.1978-1625285MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827825103321Producing early modern London3960707UNINA