The living monument
Subtitle: Shakespeare and the theatre of his time
By: M. C. Bradbrook.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1976
Place of publication: Cambridge [Eng.]; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- To 1625; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- England -- London; Theaters -- England -- London -- History -- 16th century; English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; Theatre map of London, 1520-1642; Table of theatre companies; Part I. The Sociology of the Theatre: 1. The theatre and its poet; 2. The triple bond: actors, audience, playwrights; 3. Shakespeare's Histories and the structure of Tudor society; 4. Social changes and the evolution of Ben Jonson's court masques; 5. Jonson and the image of Jacobean London; 6. The manifold theatres of Jacobean London and their poets; Part II. Jacobean Shakespeare: 7. Macbeth: the sublimation of spectacle; 8. King Lear and the kingdom of Fools and Beggars; 9. Images of love and war: Othello, Coriolanus, Antony and Cleopatra; 10. Entry to romance: Pericles and Cymbeline; 11. Open form in The Winter's Tale; 12. The Tempest; 13. Shakespeare as collaborator; Part II. Caroline Curtain Act: 14. Masque and pastoral; Notes; Index.