The Place of the Stage: License, Play, and Power in Renaissance England

by Steven Mullaney

Book Overview

In this richly textured multidisciplinary work, Steven Mullaney examines the cultural situation of popular drama in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Relying upon a dynamic model of cultural production, Mullaney defines an original and historically grounded perspective on the emergence of popular theater and illustrates the critical, revisionary role it played in the symbolic economy of Renaissance England.

Combining literary, historical,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472083465
• ISBN13: 9780472083466
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"