Christopher Highley

Blackfriars in Early Modern London

Theater, Church, and Neighborhood

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Produktbeschreibung

Blackfriars: Playhouse, Church, and Neighborhood in Early Modern London is a cultural history of an urban enclave best known in the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for the juxtaposition of theater and godly preaching.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 135mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780192846976
• ISBN-10: 0192846973
• Artikelnr.: 64082079

Autorenporträt

Christopher Highley is a Professor of English at Ohio State University. He is the author of Catholics Writing the Nation in Early Modern Britain and Ireland (OUP, 2008)

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I: Contexts
* Introduction
* 1: Precinct: Built Environment and Social Mix
* 2: Liberty: Governance, Politics, and Identity
* 3: Parish: Religion
* Part II: Theater and Church
* 4: Beginnings: Theater and Recreation in the Blackfriars before the
1590s
* 5: Early Troubles: From the 1596 Petition to Ben Jonson at the Second
Blackfriars Playhouse
* 6: 'Glancing or Girding at the Present Government': Dissident Plays
and Sermons, 1600-1609
* 7: Living with a Playhouse: Integration and Opposition, 1608-1619
* Part III: Topical Case Studies
* 8: 'Sober, Scurvy [and] Precise Neighbours': Ben Jonson, the
Blackfriars, and The Alchemist
* 9: Remembering the Catholic Blackfriars
* 10: Gouge, the Spanish Match, and Blackfriars 'Spanish' Plays
* Epilogue