Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on texts and dates
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Work in sixteenth-century England
- Chapter 2 ‘Vpon the weke daies and worke daies at conuenient times’: acting as work in Elizabethan England
- Chapter 3 ‘Though he be a king, yet he must labour’: work and nobility in Shakespeare's histories
- Chapter 4 ‘We may shut vp our shops, and make holiday’: workers and playhouses, 1599–1601
- Chapter 5 ‘Work upon that now!’: labour and status on the stage, 1599–1610
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on texts and dates
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Work in sixteenth-century England
- Chapter 2 ‘Vpon the weke daies and worke daies at conuenient times’: acting as work in Elizabethan England
- Chapter 3 ‘Though he be a king, yet he must labour’: work and nobility in Shakespeare's histories
- Chapter 4 ‘We may shut vp our shops, and make holiday’: workers and playhouses, 1599–1601
- Chapter 5 ‘Work upon that now!’: labour and status on the stage, 1599–1610
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Work and Play on the Shakespearean Stage , pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008