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Article: Theatre of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642.(Book review)
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- Shakespeare Bulletin
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- March 22, 2009
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Theatre of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642. By Jean E. Howard. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Pp. 276. $55.00 (hardback).
Theatre of a City presents a useful analytical discussion of the politics, history and cultural ideologies behind theatre and particularly the notion of theatrical space in the London of Shakespeare's time. Indeed, the book is a kind of "behind the scenes" look at scenery, setting, and the notion of "place" and "space" in some of the surviving drama of the Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline eras (c. 1598 to 1642), situated in a collection of non-dramatic literature, both published and private. This book ...