Format:
Online-Ressource (xii, 286 Seiten)
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Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9780192662460
Series Statement:
Early Modern literary geographies
Content:
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.
Content:
Cover -- Blackfriars in Early Modern London: Theater, Church, and Neighborhood -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Figures -- PART 1: CONTEXTS -- Introduction -- 1: Precinct: Built Environment and Social Mix -- Mapping the Precinct -- Post-Dissolution Development -- The Great Houses -- Non-Elite Residences and Businesses -- The Poor -- "Mixed and Myngled Together" -- Conclusion -- 2: Liberty: Governance, Politics, and Identity -- A Lawless Liberty? -- Crown versus City -- Local Authorities -- Strangers -- Building a Communal Identity -- The Limits of Autonomy -- 3: Parish: Religion -- Lay Leadership -- Clerical Leadership: Stephen Egerton -- Egerton: Popularity and Sermon Gadding -- Clerical Leadership: William Gouge -- Godly Strangers -- Godly Stationers -- Conclusion -- PART 2: THEATER AND CHURCH -- 4: Beginnings: Theater and Recreation before the 1590s -- The Revels Office -- The First Blackfriars Playhouse (1576-84) -- Who Attended? -- Playhouse Pleasures -- A Place of Entertainment: Dice, Bowls, and Tennis -- Dancing and Fencing -- Conclusion -- 5: Early Troubles: From the 1596 Petition to Ben Jonson at the Second Blackfriars Playhouse -- Burbage's Dilemma -- The Petition and its Signatories -- The Case against a Playhouse -- Playhouse and Church -- Who Didn't Sign? -- The Return of the Choristers -- A New Playhouse Opens -- Cynthia's Revels -- Poetaster -- 6: "Glauncing or girding at the present government": Stage and Pulpit, 1600-9 -- Church versus Playhouse -- The Church of St. Anne's Blackfriars -- Egerton Preaching -- Essex and the Blackfriars -- Essex and the Stage -- Philotas, Essex, and the Scots -- Chapman, Essex, and James -- Bitterness and Liberal Invectives -- James, Egerton, and the Preachers -- 7: Living with a Playhouse: Integration and Opposition, 1608-19 -- Where's the Opposition?.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780192846976
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Highley, Christopher Blackfriars in early modern London Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2022 ISBN 9780192846976
Language:
English
Keywords:
Blackfriars Theatre London
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Religion
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Geschichte 1500-1700
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