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BL
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960668
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b715038
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| Main Entry
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Munro, Ian,1967-
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The figure of the crowd in early modern London : : the city and its double /\ Ian Munro.
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2005.
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| Series Statement
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Early modern cultural studies
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (255 pages)
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| ISBN
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1281364169
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: 1403966427
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: 1403978735
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: 9781281364166
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: 9781403966421
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: 9781403978738
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1403966427
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1403978735
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-247) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Crowded Spaces -- Imaginary Numbers: City, Crowd, Theatre -- London's Mirror: Civic Ritual and the Crowd -- "Shakespeare's London": The Scene of London in the Second Tetralogy and Henry VIII -- Distracted Multitude: The Theatre and the Many-Headed Monster -- "Rome, etc.": Sejanus, Julius Caesar, and the Prodigious City -- "A kind of nothing": Plague Time in Early Modern London.
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This book examines the cultural phenomenon of the urban crowd in the context of early modern London's population crisis. Munro explores the crowd's double function as a symbol of the city's growth and as the necessary context for the public performance of urban culture. Its central argument is that the figure of the crowd acts as a supplement to the symbolic space of the city, at once providing a tangible referent for urban meaning and threatening the legibility of that meaning through its motive force and uncontrollable energy.
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Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Knowledge-- London (England)
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Shakespeare, William,1564-1616.
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Crowds in literature.
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Crowds-- England-- London-- History-- 16th century.
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Crowds-- England-- London-- History-- 17th century.
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English drama-- 17th century-- History and criticism.
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English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-- History and criticism.
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English literature-- England-- London-- History and criticism.
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Crowds in literature.
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Crowds.
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English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan.
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English drama.
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English literature.
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Intellectual life.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature.
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Population.
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London (England), In literature.
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London (England), Intellectual life.
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London (England), Population, History, 16th century.
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London (England), Population, History, 17th century.
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England, London.
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/32421
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| LC Classification
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PR8476.M86 2005eb
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