LEADER 04168nam 2200625 450 001 9910467344103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4962-0489-1 035 $a(CKB)4100000001040411 035 $a(OCoLC)1003268986 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse59863 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5143284 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5143284 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11465397 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001040411 100 $a20171208h20182018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aProducing early modern London $ea comedy of urban space, 1598-1616 /$fKelly J. Stage 210 1$aLincoln, [Nebraska] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Nebraska Press,$d2018. 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a343 pages 225 1 $aEarly Modern Cultural Studies 311 $a1-4962-0181-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine 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. 330 $a"Producing Early Modern London analyzes theater's use of city spaces and places, showing how the satirical comedies of the early seventeenth century came to embody the city as the city embodied the plays"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"Early seventeenth-century London playwrights used actual locations in their comedies while simultaneously exploring London as an imagined, ephemeral, urban space. Producing Early Modern London examines this tension between representing place and producing urban space. In analyzing the theater's use of city spaces and places, Kelly J. Stage shows how the satirical comedies of the early seventeenth century came to embody the city as the city embodied the plays. Stage focuses on city plays by George Chapman, Thomas Dekker, William Haughton, Ben Jonson, John Marston, Thomas Middleton, and John Webster. While the conventional labels of "city comedy" or "citizen comedy" have often been applied to these plays, she argues that London comedies defy these genre categorizations because the ruptures, expansions, conflicts, and imperfections of the expanding city became a part of their form. Rather than defining the "city comedy," comedy in this period proved to be the genre of London. As the expansion of London's social space exceeded the strict confines of the "square mile," the city burgeoned into a new metropolis. The satiric comedies of this period became, in effect, playgrounds for urban experimentation. Early seventeenth-century playwrights seized the opportunity to explore the myriad ways in which London worked, taking the expected--a romance plot, a typical father-son conflict, a cross-dressing intrigue--and turning it into a multifaceted, complex story of interaction and proximity."--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aEarly modern cultural studies. 606 $aEnglish drama$y17th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTheater$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aPublic spaces in literature 606 $aCities and towns in literature 606 $aEnglish drama (Comedy)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and society$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$y17th century 607 $aLondon (England)$xIn literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 615 0$aPublic spaces in literature. 615 0$aCities and towns in literature. 615 0$aEnglish drama (Comedy)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 676 $a822.309358421 700 $aStage$b Kelly J.$f1978-$0860733 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910467344103321 996 $aProducing early modern London$91920895 997 $aUNINA