Practicing the City: Early Modern London on Stage

Product description Review "Instead of choosing a single, limiting dominant metaphor or thematic element to organize the book, Nina Levine manages the difficult task of weaving together a range of organizing principles across the chapters. That diversity of topics creates a multifaceted argument that matches early modern London, its politics, its culture, and its plays in breadth and complexity."-----Adam Zucker, University of Massachusetts, Amherst"Practicing the City makes a substantial, original contribution to the expansion of our understanding of the interrelation of London and early modern drama in the light of the unprecedented urbanization that occurred in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries."-----James R. Siemon, Boston UniversityNina Levine's Practicing the City: Early Modern London On Stage is nothing short of brilliant. Her intellectually challenging scholarship should make any serious scholar rethink received wisdom regarding the interactions between the city of London and the early modern stage in so many perceptive and provocative ways.-- "The Sixteenth Century Journal"Well researched, subtly nuanced, and sophisticated in its theoretical and cultural contextualization of the plays, Levine's book is a welcome addition to recent work on the relationship between the early modern metropolis and the stage, as well as to the latest research on city drama.-- "Renaissance Quarterly" About the Author Nina Levine is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina.Nina Levine is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina.