Drawing on a wide range of plays, "Theater of a City" shows how the stage imaginatively shaped and responded to the changing face of early modern London.

Jean E. Howard is George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. She is the author of The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England and (with Phyllis Rackin) Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories. She is general editor of The Bedford Texts and Contexts Shakespeare Series and coeditor (with Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Cohen, and Katharine Eisaman Maus) of The Norton Shakespeare.

Introduction

1. Staging Commercial London: The Royal Exchange
2. Credit, Incarceration, and Performance: Staging London's Debtors' Prisons
3. (W)holesaling: Bawdy Houses and Whore Plots in the Drama's Staging of London
4. Ballrooms and Academies: Producing the Cosmopolitan Body in West End London

Epilogue
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