I. Munro

The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London (eBook, PDF)

The City and its Double

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London examines the cultural phenomenon of the urban crowd in the context of early modern London's population crisis. The book explores the crowd's double function as a symbol of the city's growth and as the necessary context for the public performance of urban culture. Its central argument is that the figure of the crowd acts as a supplement to the symbolic space of the city, at once providing a tangible referent for urban meaning and threatening the legibility of that meaning through its motive force and uncontrollable energy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Seitenzahl: 255
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781403978738
• Artikelnr.: 38282335

Autorenporträt

IAN MUNRO is a specialist in early modern theater, literature and culture. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1998 and now teaches at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Crowded Spaces Imaginary Numbers: City, Crowd, Theatre London's Mirror: Civic Ritual and the Crowd "Shakespeare's London": The Scene of London in the Second Tetralogy and Henry VIII Distracted Multitude: The Theatre and the Many-Headed Monster

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Introduction: Crowded Spaces Imaginary Numbers: City, Crowd, Theatre
London's Mirror: Civic Ritual and the Crowd "Shakespeare's London": The
Scene of London in the Second Tetralogy and Henry VIII Distracted
Multitude: The Theatre and the Many-Headed Monster

Rezensionen

"Ian Munro s clever and informative account of London in the early modern period takes as its focus the dual nature of the growing metropolis - the city and its people - and argues that the two are inseparable but, surprisingly, finally amount to nothing. " - Renaissance Quarterly

"[A] clever and informative account of London in the early modern period". - Sharon A. Beehler, Montana State University - Bozeman