Work and Play on the Shakespearean Stage
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- Author: Tom Rutter, University of Sheffield
- Date Published: November 2011
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- isbn: 9781107402485
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Time and again, early modern plays show people at work: shoemaking, grave-digging, and professional acting are just some of the forms of labour that theatregoers could have seen depicted on stage in 1599 and 1600. Tom Rutter demonstrates how such representations were shaped by the theatre's own problematic relationship with work: actors earned their living through playing, a practice that many considered idle and illegitimate, while plays were criticised for enticing servants and apprentices from their labour. As a result, the drama of Shakespeare's time became the focal point of wider debates over what counted as work, who should have to do it, and how it should be valued. This book describes changing beliefs about work in the sixteenth century, and shows how different ways of conceptualising the work of the governing class inform Shakespeare's histories. It identifies important contrasts between plays written for the adult and child repertories.
Read more- Uses the theme of work as a way of linking drama with social change
- Focuses both on major dramatists such as Shakespeare, and also on less canonical figures such as Dekker, Heywood and Munday
- Situates the plays firmly within the theatrical context in which they were written and performed
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- Date Published: November 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107402485
- length: 216 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.32kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Work in sixteenth-century England
2. 'Vpon the weke daies and worke daies at conuenient times': acting as work in Elizabethan England
3. 'Though he be a king, yet he must labour': work and nobility in Shakespeare's histories
4. 'We may shut vp our shops, and make holiday': workers and playhouses, 1599–1601
5. 'Work upon that now!': labour and status on the stage, 1599–1610
Conclusion.
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