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Persecution, plague, & fire : fugitive histories of the stage in early modern England / Ellen MacKay.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacKay, Ellen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- Theater--Moral and ethical aspects--England.
- Theater.
- Theater--England--History--16th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The theater of early modern England was a disastrous affair. The scant record of its performance demonstrates as much, for what we tend to remember today of the Shakespearean stage and its history are landmark moments of dissolution: the burning down of the Globe, the forced closure of playhouses during outbreaks of the plague, and the abolition of the theater by its Cromwellian opponents. Persecution, Plague, and Fire is a study of these catastrophes and the theory of performance they convey. Ellen MacKay argues that the various disasters that afflicte
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The ruins of Rome
- pt. 2. The fall of the unified church
- pt. 3. The apocalypse to come.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786613078421
- 9781283078429
- 1283078422
- 9780226500218
- 0226500217
- OCLC:
- 713010302
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