Plays, playscripts, drama
Book Jungle The Chemical History of a Candle
£14.09
Book Jungle History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum)
£12.36
Book Jungle Liliom
£18.95
Wipf & Stock Publishers The Man Born to Be King: A Play-Cycle on the Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
£32.73
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press At Work in the Early Modern English Theater:
Book SynopsisAt Work in the Early Modern English Theater: Valuing Labor explores the economics of the theater by examining how drama seeks to make sense of changing conceptions of labor. With the growth of commerce and market relations in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England came the corresponding degradation and exploitation of workers, many of whom made their frustrations known through petitions and pamphlets. Poverty affected all sectors of society in early modern England and many laborers, even London citizens from more prosperous trades, could expect to experience periods of impoverishment. This group of precarious laborers included actors and playwrights, many of whom had direct connections to London’s more established trades and occupations. Scholars have argued that dispossessed laborers turned to other forms of labor in lieu of their traditional livelihoods, including brigandage, piracy, begging, and cozening. To this list of alternative communities and applications of labor in the early modern period, Matthew Kendrick’s scholarship adds the London theaters. Each chapter is guided by the central premise that anxiety over the objectification and dispossession of labor in its various forms is enacted on stage, and that drama helps to formulate, by merit of the theater’s socioeconomic identity, an emerging laboring subjectivity engendered by the violent development of capitalism. As the nexus of a declining feudal social structure and an emerging capitalist regime of commodity production, a location in which dispossessed labor intersected with traditions of skilled labor and the unwieldy consumerist energies of the marketplace, the space of the theater was uniquely situated to channel and give dramatic form to the growing antagonisms and tensions that shaped labor. The stage offers a space in which to negotiate the value and meaning of labor in an increasingly exploitative society.Trade ReviewKendrick is willing to go father and be more explicitly in his Marxist analysis than has been typical of scholars writing on similar topics. Though this study is not the first to argue that the early modern period is more than simply a precursor to the development of oppositional classes during the industrial era, it makes a particularly thoughtful and often refreshingly polemical case that the absence of a fully formed bourgeoisie and proletariat during the period should not be confused with laborers' passivity to the commodification and alienation of their labor. * Comparative Drama *Kendrick’s book provides the reader with a clear outlook about labor and laborers in the early modern English theatre. * Sixteenth Century Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: The Theater between Craft and Commodity Chapter Two: Crafty Performance in City Comedy: Jonson’s Every Man in his Humour and Chapman, Jonson, and Marston’s Eastward Ho! Chapter Three: Casting Apprentices in Beaumont’s The Knight of the Burning Pestle Chapter Four: Thinking with the Feet in Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday and Rowley’s A Shoemaker, A Gentleman Chapter Five: Labor and Theatrical Value on the Shakespearean Stage: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest Afterword: Performing Laboring Subjectivity Bibliography
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Avid Readers Publishing Group The Landowner
£17.82
SMK Books The King in Yellow
£12.63
Wilder Publications Brutus
£12.63
Wilder Publications Mahomet
£12.63
SMK Books Spring Awakening
£12.63
SMK Books The Wasps
£9.67
Bibliotech Press An Anthology of Legedns and Poems of Armenia
£20.50
Bibliotech Press Двойник . Белые Ночи (White Nights; The Double)
£18.52
Bibliotech Press Homage to Catalonia
£999.99
Strategic Book Publishing From Highlands to Riches A Story about a Young Fellow Who Struggled But Made It in Life
£8.68
Xulon Press Whom My Soul Loveth
£24.07
Strategic Book Publishing An Incompatible Passion: A Play in 3 Acts
£12.90
McWriting.com Eminent Domain
£12.79
SMK Books The Suppliant Maidens
£11.64
Books We Live by 3 Plays
£15.99
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Mercutio Loves Romeo Loves Juliet Loves
£12.40
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp The Virtuous Fall of the Girls from Our Lady of Sorrows
£12.40
Playsmith The Mirror: A Play in Two Acts
£13.62
Hitchcock Media Group LLC Widows at the Club
£14.11
Independent Publisher My Path to Prajna
£14.86
Library User Group The Quiet House Book 2
£11.39
Black Legacy Press The MuleBone
£12.39
Black Legacy Press The mulebone a comedy of Negro life in three acts
£14.11
Theatre Communications Group Hillary and Clinton
£11.99
www.bnpublishing.com The Children's Hour (Acting Edition)
£14.24
Slant Books Shakeshafte and Other Plays
£19.95
Newman Springs Publishing, Inc. Street Politics
£12.30
Page Publishing, Inc Cuando El Karma Te Alcance
£14.98
Indoeuropeanpublishing.com Преступление и наказание
£29.95
Indoeuropeanpublishing.com Random Harvest
£23.95
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BLACK EAGLE BOOKS Serenade of Life Force
£18.18