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Watching a theatrical performance at a public playhouse in London around the year 1610 would have been a rather different experience from theatre-going today. In London’s theatrical venues around 1610, a heterogeneous audience living in a rapidly changing, early modern world would come together to witness performances of plays that actively engaged with the world outside the theatre. In this seminar, we will analyse and interpret two highly entertaining plays from the early seventeenth century, both of which put London and its residents on stage. Via close readings of the plays, we will explore the microcosm of these Jacobean city comedies and the conditions of their production, and we will examine the staged constructions and the functions of sex, sexuality and gender.
Texts (please buy no others than the editions below):
Dekker, Thomas and Thomas Middleton. The Roaring Girl. 1611. Ed. Elizabeth Cook. London: A & C Black, 1997. ISBN 978-0-7136-6813-1
Jonson, Ben. Epicoene or The Silent Woman. 1609. Ed. Roger Holdsworth. London: A & C Black, 2002. ISBN 978-0-7136-6668-7 |
