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The shoemaker's holiday / Thomas Dekker ; edited by Jonathan Gil Harris.

Title: The shoemaker's holiday / Thomas Dekker ; edited by Jonathan Gil Harris.
Author: Dekker, Thomas, approximately 1572-1632
Publication: London : Methuen Drama, 2008.

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Harris, Jonathan Gil

Description

xxxiv, 119 p. : ill.; 20 cm.

Summary

"Thus speaks Lacy, the gentleman who disguises himself as a simple shoemaker in order to win his true love, the grocer's daughter Rose. The Shoemaker's Holiday is one of the most engaging citizen comedies of the 17th century. Written and first performed at much the same time as Hamlet, it has an unexpected affinity with Shakespeare's tragedy: both feature a leading character who has spent time in Wittenberg, where he has learned something that has changed him.
But whereas Hamlet's Wittenberg philosophy steers him into the realm of the individuated self, Lacy's Wittenberg trade directs him and his fellows into the world of the collectively crafted commodity. In the process, the play offers insight into the evolution of fashion and the growth of consumer culture in newly capitalist London."
"This new student edition contains a lengthy new introduction with background on the author, date and sources, the play's major preoccupations, and stage history."--BOOK JACKET.

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New mermaids

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New mermaids (London, England)

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Contents

[Pt. 1] Introduction -- About the play -- Summary of the plot -- The author -- Dates and sources -- The play -- Performance history -- A note on the text -- Further reading -- Abbreviations.
[Pt. 2] The shoemaker's holiday -- Preface -- Dramatis personae -- The prologue -- First three man's song -- Second three man's song -- The text -- Appendix. Deloney's Pleasant and princely history of the gentle craft.

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