Title The figure of the crowd in early modern London : the city and its double / Ian Munro

Edition 1st ed Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (255 pages) Series Early modern cultural studies Early modern cultural studies. Contents Introduction: Crowded Spaces -- Imaginary Numbers: City, Crowd, Theatre -- London's Mirror: Civic Ritual and the Crowd -- "Shakespeare's London": The Scene of London in the Second Tetralogy and Henry VIII -- Distracted Multitude: The Theatre and the Many-Headed Monster -- "Rome, etc.": Sejanus, Julius Caesar, and the Prodigious City -- "A kind of nothing": Plague Time in Early Modern London Summary This book examines the cultural phenomenon of the urban crowd in the context of early modern London's population crisis. Munro explores the crowd's double function as a symbol of the city's growth and as the necessary context for the public performance of urban culture. Its central argument is that the figure of the crowd acts as a supplement to the symbolic space of the city, at once providing a tangible referent for urban meaning and threatening the legibility of that meaning through its motive force and uncontrollable energy Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-247) and index Notes Print version record Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge and learning. SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast Subject English literature -- England -- London -- History and criticism English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism Crowds -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century Crowds -- England -- London -- History -- 16th century Crowds in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Learning and scholarship Crowds Crowds in literature English drama English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan English literature Intellectual life Literature Population SUBJECT London (England) -- Population -- History -- 17th century London (England) -- Population -- History -- 16th century London (England) -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078212 London (England) -- In literature Subject England -- London Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781403978738 1403978735 1281364169 9781281364166 9781403966421 1403966427

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