Region, religion, and patronage
Subtitle: Lancastrian Shakespeare
By: edited by Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay and Richard Wilson.
Contributors: Dutton, Richard, 1948-; Findlay, Alison, 1963-; Wilson, Richard, 1950-
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave; Brand: Manchester University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Manchester, UK; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Religion -- Congresses.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Relations with literary patrons -- Congresses.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- Lancashire -- Congresses.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- England -- Lancashire -- Congresses.; Authors and patrons -- England -- Lancashire -- History -- 16th century -- Congresses.; Catholics -- England -- Lancashire -- History -- 16th century -- Congresses.; Theater -- England -- Lancashire -- History -- 16th century -- Congresses.; Lancashire (England) -- Intellectual life -- 16th century -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Alison Findlay, Richard Dutton; title: Useless dearness of the diamond : patronage theatre and households / Suzanne Westfall; title: Management of mirth : Shakespeare via Bourdieu / Richard Wilson; title: Between idolatry and astrology : modes of temporal repetition in Romeo and Juliet / Philippa Berry; title: Country house, Catholicity and the crypt(ic) in Twelfth night / Anne Lecercle; title: Recusancy, festivity and community : the Simpsons at Gowlthwaite Hall / Phebe Jensen; title: Suicide at the Elephant and Castle, or did the lady vanish? alternative endings for early modern women writers / Marion Wynne-Davies; title: Shakespeare and Lancaster / Richard Dutton; title: Shireburnes of Stonyhurst : memory and survival in a Lancashire Catholic recusant family / John Callow, Michael Mullett; title: Lancashire, Shakespeare and the construction of cultural neighbourhoods in sixteenth-century England / Mary A. Blackstone; title: Family tradition : dramatic patronage by the Earls of Derby / Sally-Beth MacLean; title: Playhouse at Prescot and the 1592-94 plague / David George; title: Regional performance in Shakespeare's time / Peter Greenfield.