Representing the professions
Subtitle: administration, law, and theater in early modern England
By: Edward Gieskes.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
Subjects: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.; English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.; Professions in literature.; Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Professions -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Professions -- England -- History -- 17th century.; Lawyers in literature.
Description: "Representing the Professions unites literary criticism, social and legal history, and Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of culture. It offers a detailed exploration of the professionalization of selected early modern disciplines in an effort to characterize those disciplines in their social, economic, and historical contexts."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.  ) and index.
Table of contents: title: "To sound the depths of what thou wilt profess" : the professions in early modern England; title: "I mean to learn" : status and service in the history plays; title: "This! why it outfrowns ink!" : social conflict and the legal profession; title: "The art of revels hath a settled place in the city" : the revels, civic drama, and the theater professions; title: "Honesty and vulgar praise" : the poet's war and the literary field; title: Conclusions : professions, literary history, and the function of criticism.