Drama and the Market in the Age of Shakespeare (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is the one -- groaty to the very core, fire-minted with economic insight and saucier than a dutchman's greek. Cuckltural marterioles to the max. Fork aht, sisters and brothers, fork aht.

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Douglas Bruster's provocative study of English Renaissance drama explores its links with Elizabethan and Jacobean economy and society, looking at the status of playwrights such as Shakespeare and the establishment of commercial theatres. He identifies in the drama a materialist vision which has its origins in the climate of uncertainty engendered by the rapidly expanding economy of London. His examples range from the economic importance of cuckoldry to the role of stage props as commodities, and the commercial significance of the Troy story in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, and he offers new ways of reading English Renaissance drama, by returning the theatre and the plays performed there, to its basis in the material world.

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Gramercy Park: An American Bloomsbury Review

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(More customer reviews)I get a big kick out of learning fun facts about New York with which to impress my friends, and this book did not disappoint. In-depth looks at Gramercy residents such as Peter Cooper, Edwin Booth, and the visual artists of American modernity are very satisfying, and the tone of the book is nicely conversational. Illustrated with both photographs and drawings, it makes a great companion piece for a walk around Gramercy. Not as interesting as books about the "low-life" of New York's past, and (for a book written by a woman) a little in awe of the tremendous MEN who founded and lived around the park-- however, it's a very comprehensive and well-written history of one of New York's oldest neighborhoods.

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A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama (Blackwell Guides to Classical Literature) Review

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(More customer reviews)If you're going to understand great literature, it helps to read and study great literature. And the fact is that some of the greatest literature ever written was done by the Classical Greeks. The trouble is, they came from a world so different from our own that reading their stories is often a challenge, since they take for granted things we may not know. So before or while you dive into the likes of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides or Aristophanes, a book like this one is a helpful tool to have. It makes sense of the authors of ancient Greece and their world, and it helps guide you to the good stuff.
And believe me, the good stuff in these old plays is better than good; it's the best ever.

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