The Shoemaker's Holiday

The Shoemaker's Holiday
Author: Thomas Dekker
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1999-09-11
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780719030994

Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday is one of the most popular of Elizabethan plays--entertaining, racy and vivid in its characterization. Revealing a vital portrait of Elizabethan London and the interaction of social classes within the city, its social commentary is on the whole optimistic, though darker tones are discernible. The play has had a lively history of performance on both the professional and amateur stage.

London Street Names

London Street Names
Author: Gillian Bebbington
Publisher: B. T. Batsford Limited
Total Pages: 400
Release: 1972
Genre: History
ISBN:

Imagining Early Modern London

Imagining Early Modern London
Author: J. F. Merritt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2001-08-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521773461

The 120 years that separate the first publication of John Stow's famous Survey of London in 1598 from John Strype's enormous new edition of the same work in 1720 witnessed London's transformation into a sprawling augustan metropolis, very different from the compact medieval city so lovingly charted in the pages of Stow. Imagining Early Modern London takes Stow's classic account of the Elizabethan city as a starting point for an examination of how generations of very different Londoners - men and women, antiquaries, merchants, skilled craftsmen, labourers and beggars - experienced and understood the dramatically changing city. A series of interdisciplinary essays explore the ways in which Londoners interpreted and memorialized their past: how individuals located themselves mentally, socially and geographically within the city, and how far the capital's growth was believed to have a moral influence upon its inhabitants.

The Theatrical City

The Theatrical City
Author: David L. Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2003-12-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521526159

A collection of interdisciplinary essays on the 'theatrical' in Renaissance London.