Matthew Kendrick

At Work in the Early Modern English Theater

Valuing Labor

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries from the perspective of the period's radically changing labor relations and the nascent emergence of the English working class. The book offers a new way to approach the period by situating drama at the intersection of early modern theater history and labor history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 307g
• ISBN-13: 9781611478266
• ISBN-10: 161147826X
• Artikelnr.: 47879031

Autorenporträt

Matthew Kendrick is assistant professor of English at William Paterson University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter One: The Theater between Craft and Commodity Chapter Two: Crafty Performance in City Comedy: Jonson
s Every Man in his Humour and Chapman, Jonson, and Marston
s Eastward Ho! Chapter Three: Casting Apprentices in Beaumont
s The Knight of the Burning Pestle Chapter Four: Thinking with the Feet in Dekker
s The Shoemaker
s Holiday and Rowley
s A Shoemaker, A Gentleman Chapter Five: Labor and Theatrical Value on the Shakespearean Stage: A Midsummer Night
s Dream and The Tempest Afterword: Performing Laboring Subjectivity Bibliography