Work and play on the Shakespearean stage
By: Tom Rutter.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780521884860
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Characters; English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism; Work in literature; Play in literature; Professions in literature; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century; Acting in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Work in sixteenth-century England; title: 'Vpon the weke daies and worke daies at conuenient times': acting as work in Elizabethan England; title: 'Though he be a king, yet he must labour': work and nobility in Shakespeare's histories; title: 'We may shut vp our shops, and make holiday': workers and playhouses, 1599-1601; title: 'Work upon that now!': labour and status on the stage, 1599-1610.