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Article: London Civic Theatre: City Drama and Pageantry from Roman Times to 1558.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2004
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Anne Lancashire. London Civic Theatre: City Drama and Pageantry from Roman Times to 1558. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. xix, 355. $65.00. ISBN 0-521-63278-1.
Early in her informative and expansive history of pre-Elizabethan civic drama in London, Anne Lancashire reminds us that the remains of a Roman amphitheater were uncovered in 1988 at the current site of the city's Guildhall. The coincidence, if one could call it that, is almost too good to be true: the spirit of the Roman entertainments held in the first and second centuries of the common era would be resurrected nearly one thousand years later in the Pageants, Watches, Lord Mayors' Shows, ...