Title & Author:

London in the age of Shakespeare : an anthology / edited by Lawrence Manley.

Publication:

London : Croom Helm, ©1986.

Description:

372 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-369) and index.
Portrait of a city: prose description -- In praise of London: verse Encomia -- The order of society: testimony of change -- From the pulpit: sermons -- London in jest: from the jestbooks -- Songs of the streets: broadside ballads -- Naked frailties: satire and complaint -- For the record: official voices -- Guides for the perplexed: varieties of advice -- Worthies remembered: civic myths and heroes -- The city in a nutshell: epigrams -- Coming and going: poems of transit -- London in love: erotica -- Theatrum mundi: the city in stage comedy -- Fishwives and others: varieties of character-writing -- Theatre in the streets: official pageantry.

Summary:

London in the age of Shakespeare was one of the largest and most important cities of Europe. Poets and poetasters, rhetoricians and preachers were able to use the city as an object for displays of technical rhetoric in ballads, bawdy jests, sermons, and tales. There is today an unparalleled wealth of contemporary descriptions which give us a vivid picture of what life was like in London in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Professor Manley has collected a rich variety of such documents on Shakespeare's London, many of which have never before been translated into English. He has provided a general introduction to the history and literature of Tudor-Stuart London, while in further introductions to each chapter he sets the selections in their historical context and explains the conventions of literary genre that must be considered in using the selections as historical evidence. This collection will be welcomed by those interested in Renaissance history and life, and will be a useful resource for students of Renaissance poetry and rhetoric.

ISBN:

0709935609
9780709935605
0271004452
9780271004457

Subject:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Homes and haunts England London.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Et l'Angleterre de son temps.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
English literature Early modern, 1500-1700.
Littérature anglaise 16e siècle.
Littérature anglaise 17e siècle.
English literature Early modern.
Homes.
Intellectual life.
Manners and customs.
Travel.
Quelle
London (England) Description and travel.
London (England) Literary collections.
London (England) Intellectual life 16th century.
London (England) Intellectual life 17th century.
London (England) Social life and customs 16th century Sources.
London (England) Social life and customs 17th century Sources.
Shakespeare.
Londres (Angleterre) Descriptions et voyages.
Londres (Angleterre) Anthologies.
Londres (Angleterre) Vie intellectuelle 16e siècle.
Londres (Angleterre) Vie intellectuelle 17e siècle.
Londres (Angleterre) Mœurs et coutumes 16e siècle Sources.
Londres (Angleterre) Mœurs et coutumes 17e siècle Sources.
England London.
London
4.240.
London Social life, 1485-1660 - Readings from contemporary sources

Form/genre:

Literary collections.
Sources.

Added entries:

Manley, Lawrence, 1949-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 14962
Call No.: ID:87-B4391
Status: Available