09/29/21 The Theatrical City (Advanced Options) | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists The Theatrical City (Advanced Options) View Online (Semester 1 or 2) Advanced option for English Literature, available through modules ENGL6002 or ENGL6004 234 items Plays - to buy or borrow from the Library (16 items) Before the semester starts, please try to read the following primary texts which we will study (in more or less this order) The Shoemakers’ Holiday - Thomas Dekker Chapter Eastward Ho - Thomas George Chapman, Ben Jonson, John Marston Chapter Every Man in His Humour - Ben Jonson Chapter Henry IV, part 1 - William Shakespeare, David M. Bevington, 2008, c1987 Book | Essential | eBook version of different edition available (see below) King Henry IV, the First Part - William Shakespeare, 2016 Book | eBook version Measure for measure - William Shakespeare, Brian Gibbons, 2006 Book | Essential | eBook versions of different editions available (see below) Measure For Measure - William Shakespeare, 2000 Book | eBook version Oxford Shakespeare: Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare, N. W. Bawcutt, 1991 Book | eBook version The Roaring Girl - Thomas Middleton Chapter | Essential | eBook version of different edition available (see below) The Roaring Girl (1611) - Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker Chapter | eBook version Epicene, or The silent woman - Ben Jonson, Richard Dutton, 2008 Book | eBook version of different edition available (see below) Epicene, or The silent woman (1609) - Ben Jonson Chapter | eBook version A Chaste Maid in Cheapside - Thomas Middleton Chapter | Essential 1/17 09/29/21 The Theatrical City (Advanced Options) | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists A Chaste Maid in Cheapside - Thomas Middleton Chapter The Knight of the Burning Pestle - Francis Beaumont Chapter | eBook version of different edition available (see below) The Knight of the Burning Pestle (1607) - Francis Beaumont Chapter | eBook version General secondary reading (16 items) A century of revolution 1603-1714 - Christopher Hill, 1991 Book The lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street - Charles Nicholl, 2008 Book The politics and poetics of transgression - Peter Stallybrass, Allon White, 1986 Book Shakespeare's professional career - Peter Thomson, 1999 Book The impact of the English Reformation, 1500-1640 - Peter Marshall, 1997 Book Disease, medicine and society in England, 1550-1860 - Roy Porter, Economic History Society, 1993 Book Crime in early modern England, 1550-1750 - J. A. Sharpe, 1999 Book The cradle king: a life of James VI and I - Alan Stewart, 2004 Book The City in cultural context - John A. Agnew, John Mercer, David E. Sopher, 1984 Book | Book not available at Brookes - Bodleian Library only Unsettled: the culture of mobility and the working poor in early modern England - Patricia Fumerton, 2006 Book The culture of capital: property, cities, and knowledge in early modern England - Henry S. Turner, 2002 Book A companion to Shakespeare - David Scott Kastan, 1999 Book | See chapter by Ian Archer, ‘Shakespeare’s London’ 2/17 09/29/21 The Theatrical City (Advanced Options) | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists Drama and the market in the age of Shakespeare - Douglas Bruster, 1992 Book Maps and memory in early modern England: a sense of place - Rhonda Lemke Sanford, 2002 Book The Oxford companion to Shakespeare - Michael Dobson, Stanley Wells, 2001 Book The materiality of religion in early modern English drama - Elizabeth Williamson, 2016 Book Early modern women and gender (7 items) The cultural identity of seventeenth century woman: a reader - N. H. Keeble, 1994 Book The body embarrassed: drama and the disciplines of shame in early modern England - Gail Kern Paster, 1993 Book Impersonations: the performance of gender in Shakespeare's England - Stephen Orgel, 1996 Book Women in Men's Clothing: Apparel and Social Stability in 'The Roaring Girl' - Mary Beth Rose, 1984 Article Enter the body: women and representation on Shakespeare's stage - Carol Chillington Rutter, 2001 Book Male-to-female crossdressing in early modern English literature: gender, performance, and queer relations - Simone Chess, 2016 Book Shakespeare and gender in practice - Terri Power, 2016 Book Early modern London (30 items) An anthology of London in literature, 1558-1914: 'flower of cities all' - 2019, ©2019 Book Plotting early modern London: new essays on Jacobean City comedy - Dieter Mehl, Angela Stock, Anne-Julia Zwierlein, ©2004 Book 3/17 09/29/21 The Theatrical City (Advanced Options) | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists The idea of the city in the age of Shakespeare - Gail Kern Paster, ©1985 Book Theater of a city: the places of London comedy, 1598-1642 - Jean E. Howard, ©2007 Book The figure of the crowd in early modern London: the city and its double - Ian Munro, 2005 Book Imagining early modern London: perceptions and portrayals of the city from Stow to Strype, 1598-1720 - J. F. Merritt, 2001 Book The pursuit of stability: social relations in Elizabethan London - Ian Archer, 1991 Book The theatrical city: culture, theatre, and politics in London, 1576-1649 - David L. Smith, Richard Strier, David M. Bevington, 1995 Book Elizabeth's London: everyday life in Elizabethan London - Liza Picard, 2003 Book Cony-catchers and bawdy baskets: an anthology of Elizabethan low life - Ga ̄ mini Salga ̄ do, 1972 Book London: the biography - Peter Ackroyd, 2001 Book London 1500-1700: the making of the metropolis - A. L. Beier, Roger Finlay, 1986 Book The Cambridge urban history of Britain: Vol.2: 1540-1840 - Peter Clark, 2000 Book London in early modern English drama: representing the built environment - Darryll Grantley, 2008 Book Londinopolis: essays in the cultural and social history of early modern London - Paul Griffiths, Mark S. R. Jenner, 2000 Book Cities in civilization: culture, innovation and urban order - Peter Hall, 1998 Book | See chapter by Peter Hall, ‘The World as Stage: London 1570-1620’ 4/17 09/29/21 The Theatrical City (Advanced Options) | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists Literature and culture in early modern London - Lawrence Manley, 1995 Book The figure of the crowd in early modern London: the city and its double - Ian Munro, 2005 Book Imagining early modern London: perceptions and portrayals of the city from Stow to Strype, 1598-1720 - J. F. Merritt, 2001 Book London: a social history - Roy Porter, 1994 Book The theatrical city: culture, theatre and politics in London, 1576-1649 - David L. Smith, Richard Strier, David Bevington, 1995 Book A survey of London - John Stow, Charles Lethbridge Kingsford, 1971 Book Imagining early modern London: perceptions and portrayals of the city from Stow to Strype, 1598-1720 - J. F. Merritt, 2001 Book London dispossessed: literature and social space in the early modern city - John Twyning, 1998 Book Metropolitan communities: trade guilds, identity, and change in early modern London - Joseph P. Ward, 1997 Book Theatre, court and city, 1595-1610: drama and social space in London - Janette Dillon, 2000 Book Introduction: The Great World of Early Modern London - Deborah Harkness, Jean E. Howard , 2008 Article Shakespeare's London theatreland: archaeology, history and drama - Julian Bowsher, 2012 Book Why Did London Inns Function as Theaters? - Lawrence Manley, 2008 Article Practicing the city: early modern London on stage - Nina S. Levine, 2016 Book Early modern comedy (12 items) 5/17 09/29/21 The Theatrical City (Advanced Options) | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists London Comedy and the Ethos of the City - Anne Barton, 1978 Article The Displacement of the Market in Jacobean City Comedy - Lorna Hutson, 1989 Article Theater of a city: the places of London comedy, 1598-1642 - Jean E. Howard, c2007 Book Rabelais and his world - M. M. Bakhtin, c1984 Book Homo ludens: a study of the play-element in culture - Johan Huizinga, 1955 Book Shakespeare and carnival: after Bakhtin - Ronald Knowles, 1998 Book The city staged: Jacobean comedy, 1603-1613 - Theodore B. Leinwand, 1986 Book Comedy - W. Moelwyn Merchant, 1972 Book Comedy - Andrew Stott, 2005 Book Jacobean city comedy - Brian Gibbons, 1980 Book Citizen comedy in the age of Shakespeare - Alexander Leggatt, 1973 Book Parsing the city: Jonson, Middleton, Dekker, and city comedy's London as language - Heather C. Easterling, 2014 Book Early modern theatrical culture (24 items) The Cambridge companion to English Renaissance drama - A. R. Braunmuller, Michael Hattaway, 2003 Book | See especially chapter 1, 'Playhouses and Players', by R. A. Foakes. Shakespeare's theatre - Peter Thomson, 1992 Book The human stage: English theatre design, 1567-1640 - John Orrell, 2009 Book Eyewitnesses of Shakespeare: first hand accounts of performances 1590-1890 - Ga 6/17 09/29/21 The Theatrical City (Advanced Options) | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists ̄ mini Salga ̄ do, 1975 Book Jacobean public theatre - Alexander Leggatt, 1992 Book | Not available at Brookes library, but held at Bodleian. Shakespeare: an illustrated stage history - Jonathan Bate, Russell Jackson, 1996 Book This stage-play world: texts and contexts, 1580-1625 - Julia Briggs, 1997 Book Shakespeare's Globe rebuilt - Ronnie Mulryne, Margaret Shewring, 1997 Book Environmental degradation in Jacobean drama - Bruce Thomas Boehrer, 2013 Book Shakespeare's restless world - Neil MacGregor, 2014 Book Carnival and theater: plebeian culture and the structure of authority in Renaissance England - Michael D. Bristol, 1985 Book The Revels history of drama in English - Clifford Leech, T. W. Craik, J. Leeds Barroll, 1975 Book The Jacobean and Caroline stage: Vol.6: Theatres - Gerald Eades Bentley,