LEADER 04362nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910812709103321 005 20240418021143.0 010 $a1-283-21173-4 010 $a9786613211736 010 $a0-8122-0230-9 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202304 035 $a(CKB)2550000000051310 035 $a(OCoLC)759158164 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491870 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000647884 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11380949 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000647884 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10593944 035 $a(PQKB)11508016 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8351 035 $a(DE-B1597)449088 035 $a(OCoLC)979591440 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202304 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441413 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10491870 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL321173 035 $a(OCoLC)824104151 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441413 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000051310 100 $a20060615d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTheater of a city $ethe places of London comedy, 1598-1642 /$fJean E. Howard 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia [Pa.] $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (285 p.) 300 $aFirst paperback edition 2009. 311 $a0-8122-2063-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter 1. Staging Commercial London: The Royal Exchange -- $tChapter 2. Credit, Incarceration, and Performance: Staging London's Debtors' Prisons -- $tChapter 3. (W)holesaling: Bawdy Houses and Whore Plots in the Drama's Staging of London -- $tChapter 4. Ballrooms and Academies: Producing the Cosmopolitan Body in West End London -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aArguing that the commercial stage depended on the unprecedented demographic growth and commercial vibrancy of London to fuel its own development, Jean E. Howard posits a particular synergy between the early modern stage and the city in which it flourished.In London comedy, place functions as the material arena in which social relations are regulated, urban problems negotiated, and city space rendered socially intelligible. Rather than simply describing London, the stage participated in interpreting it and giving it social meaning. Each chapter of this book focuses on a particular place within the city-the Royal Exchange, the Counters, London's whorehouses, and its academies of manners-and examines the theater's role in creating distinctive narratives about each. In these stories, specific locations are transformed into venues defined by particular kinds of interactions, whether between citizen and alien, debtor and creditor, prostitute and client, or dancing master and country gentleman. Collectively, they suggest how city space could be used and by whom, and they make place the arena for addressing pressing urban problems: demographic change and the influx of foreigners and strangers into the city; new ways of making money and losing it; changing gender roles within the metropolis; and the rise of a distinctive "town culture" in the West End.Drawing on a wide range of familiar and little-studied plays from four decades of a defining era of theater history, Theater of a City shows how the stage imaginatively shaped and responded to the changing face of early modern London. 606 $aTheater$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aTheater$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aTheaters$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aTheaters$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aEnglish drama (Comedy)$xHistory and criticism 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 615 0$aTheaters$xHistory 615 0$aTheaters$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish drama (Comedy)$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a792.09421/09032 700 $aHoward$b Jean E$g(Jean Elizabeth),$f1948-$0503277 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812709103321 996 $aTheater of a city$94114139 997 $aUNINA