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Theatre, community, and civic engagement in Jacobean London / Mark Bayer.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PN2592 .B39 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bayer, Mark, 1973-
- Series:
- Studies in theatre history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater and society--England--History--17th century.
- Theater and society.
- Theater--England--London--History--17th century.
- Theater.
- History.
- England--London.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 258 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- Taking to heart Thomas Heywood's claim that plays "persuade men to humanity and good life, instruct them in civility and good manners, showing them the fruits of honesty, and the end of villainy," Mark Bayer s captivating new study argues that the early modern London theatre was an important community institution whose influence extended far beyond irs economic, religious, educational, and entertainment contributions. Bayer concentrates not on the theatres where Shakespeare's plays were performed but on two important amphitheatres, the Fortune and the Red Bull, that offer a more nuanced picture of the Jacobean playgoing industry. In lively and convincing prose that illuminates the significant, reciprocal relationships between different playhouses" and their playgoers, Bayer shows that theatres could inform and benefit London society and the communities geographically closest to them. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Theatre and social capital
- Rethinking city and suburb
- The public theatres and their communities
- Religious communities at London's northern playhouses
- The spectacle of history at the Red Bull
- The Clerkenwell riot and its aftermath
- Epilogue: After 1642.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781609380397
- 1609380398
- OCLC:
- 708648192
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