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Practicing the city : early modern London on stage / / Nina Levine



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Autore: Levine Nina S. <1950-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Practicing the city : early modern London on stage / / Nina Levine Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2016
2016
Edizione: First edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
Disciplina: 822/.309358421
Soggetto topico: English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism
English drama - 17th century - History and criticism
City and town life in literature
Theater and society - England - London - History
Theater - England - London - History - 16th century
Theater - England - London - History - 17th century
Soggetto geografico: London (England) In literature
Soggetto non controllato: 1 and 3 Henry IV
Englishmen for my Money
London Stage
Sir Thomas More
The Roaring Girl
early modern London
theater as medium
urban networks
urbanization
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Presupposing the Stage -- 1. Extending Credit and the Henry IV Plays -- 2. Differentiating Collaboration: Protest and Playwriting and Sir Thomas More -- 3. Trading in Tongues: Language Lessons and Englishmen for My Money -- 4. The Place of the Present: Making Time and The Roaring Girl -- Epilogue: The Place of the Spectator -- Notes -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: In late-sixteenth-century London, the commercial theaters undertook a novel experiment, fueling a fashion for plays that trafficked in the contemporary urban scene. But beyond the stage’s representing the everyday activities of the expanding metropolis, its unprecedented urban turn introduced a new dimension into theatrical experience, opening up a reflexive space within which an increasingly diverse population might begin to “practice” the city. In this, the London stage began to operate as a medium as well as a model for urban understanding. Practicing the City traces a range of local engagements, onstage and off, in which the city’s population came to practice new forms of urban sociability and belonging. With this practice, Levine suggests, city residents became more self-conscious about their place within the expanding metropolis and, in the process, began to experiment in new forms of collective association. Reading an array of materials, from Shakespeare and Middleton to plague bills and French-language manuals, Levine explores urban practices that push against the exclusions of civic tradition and look instead to the more fluid relations playing out in the disruptive encounters of urban plurality.
Titolo autorizzato: Practicing the city  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8232-6789-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814962603321
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