London in Early Modern English Drama

This book explores the changing representation on the early modern stage of the built environment of London. It covers a period in which the city underwent rapid growth to become the country's first metropolis, and it examines how the urban environment becomes part of the frame of reference of the drama that is set there.

'The chief virtue of the work is the encyclopaedic knowledge of drama that the author brings to his study. Readers unfamiliar with the range of dramatic works that utilise or refer to the city in some way will encounter references to some new materials between these pages.' - Andrew Gordon, The Review of English Studies

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DARRYLL GRANTLEY teaches in the School of Drama, Film and Visual Arts at the University of Kent, UK, with research interests that extend across both the late medieval and early modern periods. He has written and edited several books with a particular focus on theatre in social and cultural history.

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Acknowledgements Map of Early Modern London Introduction The Pre-Commercial Theatre Interlude Drama Late Elizabethan Drama Jacobean Drama Caroline Drama Conclusion Bibliography Index