Tom Rutter

Work and Play on the Shakespearean Stage

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the way work was depicted on the English stage by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9780521884860
• ISBN-10: 0521884861
• Artikelnr.: 24926677

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Work in sixteenth-century England
2. 'Vpon the weke daies and worke daies at conuenient times': acting as work in Elizabethan England
3. 'Though he be a king, yet he must labour': work and nobility in Shakespeare's histories
4. 'We may shut vp our shops, and make holiday': workers and playhouses, 1599-1601
5. 'Work upon that now!': labour and status on the stage, 1599-1610
Conclusion.