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Article: 'The Cittie is in an uproare': Staging London in The Booke of Sir Thomas More.(Book review)
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- Early Modern Literary Studies
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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'The Cittie is in an uproare':
Staging London in The Booke of Sir Thomas More
Tracey Hill
Bath Spa University College
t.hill@bathspa.ac.uk
Hill, Tracey. "'The Cittie is in an uproare': Staging London in the Booke of Sir Thomas More". Early Modern Literary Studies 11.1 (May, 2005) 2.1-19
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Sixteenth-century London permeates this complicated play-text: its setting is London, it was originally written for a London playhouse, the Rose on Bankside, and some of its chief writers (Thomas Dekker, Thomas Heywood and Anthony Munday) were freemen of the City. The play's eponymous protagonist was also a Londoner: More was born ...