Article: Anthony Munday and Civic Culture: Theatre, History, and Power in Early Modern London 1580-1633.(Book review)

Tracey Hill. Anthony Munday and Civic Culture: Theatre, History and Power in Early Modern London 1580-1633.

Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2004. vii + 216 pp. index. illus. bibl. $69.95. ISBN: 0-7190-6832-5.

Tracey Hill has risen admirably to the challenge of rescuing Anthony Munday, who has largely suffered benign neglect for decades (the last book-length study appearing in 1928). Surely many have wondered at Francis Meres's judgment in Palladis Tamia that Munday showed great skill in comedy and that he was "our best plotter"--if only Meres had written "plodder." Fortunately, Hill lays out a compelling case for taking Munday and ...

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