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04839aam a2200589 i 4500 001 8A548FC2580511E8A8F83C5097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180515010114 008 170830t20182018nbuab b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2017031762 020 $a 1496201817 020 $a 9781496201812 035 $a (OCoLC)983384654 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d OCLCO $d IUL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-en 050 00 $a PR678.L58 $b S73 2018 082 00 $a 822/.309358421 $2 23 100 1 $a Stage, Kelly J., $d 1978- $e author. 245 10 $a Producing early modern London : $b a comedy of urban space, 1598-1616 / $c Kelly J. Stage. 264 1 $a Lincoln : $b University of Nebraska Press, $c [2018] 300 $a x, 342 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Early modern cultural studies 500 $a Machine generated contents note: List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "Wat be dis plashe?" Estranged Spaces and Theatrical Places 2. Runaways, Madmen, and Shipwrecks: Westward, Northward, and Eastward Ho 3. Pervasive Space and Urban Tactics: Performing Resistance 4. Strange Hidden Ways: Escaping the City Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-334) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- 1. "Wat be dis plashe?": Estranged Spaces and Theatrical Places -- 2. Runaways, Madmen, and Shipwrecks: Westward, Northward, and Eastward Ho -- 3. Pervasive Space and Urban Tactics: Performing Resistance -- 4. Strange Hidden Ways: Escaping the City -- Epilogue. 520 $a "Early seventeenth-century London playwrights used actual locations in their comedies while simultaneously exploring London as an imagined, ephemeral, urban space. Producing Early Modern London examines this tension between representing place and producing urban space. In analyzing the theater's use of city spaces and places, Kelly J. Stage shows how the satirical comedies of the early seventeenth century came to embody the city as the city embodied the plays. Stage focuses on city plays by George Chapman, Thomas Dekker, William Haughton, Ben Jonson, John Marston, Thomas Middleton, and John Webster. While the conventional labels of "city comedy" or "citizen comedy" have often been applied to these plays, she argues that London comedies defy these genre categorizations because the ruptures, expansions, conflicts, and imperfections of the expanding city became a part of their form. Rather than defining the "city comedy," comedy in this period proved to be the genre of London. As the expansion of London's social space exceeded the strict confines of the "square mile," the city burgeoned into a new metropolis. The satiric comedies of this period became, in effect, playgrounds for urban experimentation. Early seventeenth-century playwrights seized the opportunity to explore the myriad ways in which London worked, taking the expected--a romance plot, a typical father-son conflict, a cross-dressing intrigue--and turning it into a multifaceted, complex story of interaction and proximity."-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "Producing Early Modern London analyzes theater's use of city spaces and places, showing how the satirical comedies of the early seventeenth century came to embody the city as the city embodied the plays"-- $c Provided by publisher. 651 0 $a London (England) $x In literature. 650 0 $a English drama $y 17th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Theater $z England $x History $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Public spaces in literature. 650 0 $a Cities and towns in literature. 650 0 $a English drama (Comedy) $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z London $z London $x History $y 17th century. 650 7 $a Cities and towns in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00861865 650 7 $a English drama. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910737 650 7 $a English drama (Comedy) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910792 650 7 $a Literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00999953 650 7 $a Literature and society. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000096 650 7 $a Public spaces in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01083063 650 7 $a Theater. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01149217 651 7 $a England. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01219920 651 7 $a England $z London. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204271 648 7 $a 1600-1699 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Stage, Kelly J., 1978- $t Producing early modern London. $d Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2018 $z 9781496204875 $w (DLC) 2017042735 830 0 $a Early modern cultural studies (Lincoln, Neb.) 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20181116060018.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8A548FC2580511E8A8F83C5097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search