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5 - City

from Part I - Mapping Shakespeare’s World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Ian Munro
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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citiesFirst TetralogyLondonRomespacestagingTower of Londonurban
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 34 - 39
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Further reading

Archer, Ian W. The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.Google Scholar
Bevington, David, Smith, David L., and Strier, Richard, eds. The Theatrical City: Culture, Theatre, and Politics in London, 1576–1649. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.Google Scholar
Dillon, Janette. Theatre, Court, and City, 1595–1610: Drama and Social Space in London. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.Google Scholar
Howard, Jean. Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598–1642. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2007.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Manley, Lawrence. Literature and Culture in Early Modern London. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.Google Scholar
Merritt, J. F., ed. Imagining Early Modern London: Perceptions and Portrayals of the City from Stow to Strype. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.Google Scholar
Munro, Ian. The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London: The City and Its Double. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Newman, Karen. Cultural Capitals: Early Modern London and Paris. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Orlin, Lena Cowen, ed. Material London, ca. 1600. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2000.Google Scholar
Paster, Gail Kern. The Idea of the City in the Age of Shakespeare. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1985.Google Scholar

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