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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Early modern London"”.
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Policy and Polity: Space, Boundaries, and Governance in Early Modern London, 1580-1640
… for law, governance, trade, and consumption, early modern London experienced a period of rapid growth and sprawl from the mid-sixteenth century. This nurtured more dense and frequent mobility and produced a dynamic, kinetic city. For civic authorities, however, boundaries took on greater …
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The making of clothing and the making of London, 1560-1660
… the period from 1560 to 1660 was a key era for London’s development from a relatively small European urban centre into a large dynamic global capital. This dissertation attempts to intervene in London scholarship by drawing attention to the economic, political, religious and – most significantly …
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"How the Fishes Live in the Sea": Shakespeare's Daughters and the Market of Romance
… late romances were originally staged in London, seventeenth-century playgoers would have encountered a dramatic genre intertwined with global intrigue and fantastical, even fairy-tale elements. These plays, however, are also deeply invested in the changing economic landscape of the City …
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Making 'fritters with English:' Functions of Early Modern Welsh Dialect on the English Stage
… paradoxically familiar ‘foreigners’ throughout early modern London; Henry VIII actively suppressed the use of the Welsh language, even though many in the Tudor line selectively boasted of Welsh ancestry. Still, in the late-sixteenth century, there was a surge in London’s Welsh population which …
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The Crew / of Common Playwrights: Collaboration and Authorial Community in the Early Modern Theater
… of playwriting into an established profession in early modern London, a central paradox emerged: in order to secure a place within this authorial community, and also a place for the profession itself, playwrights needed to work toward the often contradictory goals of self-promotion and of …
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Stages of imprisonment : Shakespeare and his contemporaries
This dissertation brings the quotidian reality of early modern London prisons to bear on the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. It presents the range of spheres in which prison language operated, describing a continuum between the performances of real imprisonment in the streets, the …
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Anatomizing the social body: representing the plague in London, 1665
… to the outbreak of bubonic plague in the City of London in 1665. This form of representation utilized visual, textual, and statistical elements in 'anatomizing’ the spaces of the City during the outbreak, and the social processes brought into play by the presence of the disease in the urban …
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The Queen's and Embassy Chapels and the Boundaries of Tolerance in Early Stuart London, c. 1603-1643
… survival and religiopolitical crises in London through a case study of the queen’s and embassy chapels. A central tension at the heart of early modern society was the imperative to uphold religious uniformity while living with confessional diversity after the Reformation. This was …
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Great bellies and boy actors: pregnancy plays on the Stuart stage, 1603-1642
… received scant attention from other scholars of early modern theatrical materials, prosthetics, or performed maternity. My work sheds light on this critical blind spot in early modern theatre history and drama that has emerged in the shadow cast by Queen Elizabeth and King James I. Each chapter …
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New World Drugs in England's Early Empire
… were New World drugs received and understood in early modern England? In the seventeenth century, England’s first empire was being established and an increasing abundance of medicinal plants arrived in London from across the Atlantic. In this thesis, I argue that commercial and political …