The "Shoemaker's Holiday" by Thomas Dekker
The rise of Simon Eyre, shoemaker, to the office of Lord Mayor provided Dekker with the material for one of the most festive of London comedies. This is no urban satire in the Jonsonian vein, but a cheerfully idealistic - yet by no means naive - celebration of civic social ethos and the culture of the Elizabethan 'middling sort'. Set largely in and around Eyre's workshop, the play provides a happy ending for the earl's son who disguises himself as a Dutch artisan to woo Eyre's daughter; the journeyman who comes home crippled after the wars in France is reunited with his destitute wife; and Eyre himself - the handicraftsman whose 'heart is without craft' - who invites King Henry V to join in the artisans' Shrove Tuesday revelry. This edition provides maps of the Rose theatre, in which the play was first staged in 1599, and of Elizabethan London, the immediate backdrop of the action.-
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The Country Wife
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Doctor Faustus
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The Rover
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Epicoene or The Silent Woman
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The Jew of Malta
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The Roaring Girl
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The Rivals
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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The School for Scandal
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Edward II Revised
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Tamburlaine
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"The Way of the World"
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Lady Windermere's Fan
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The Revenger's Tragedy
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The Witch of Edmonton
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She Stoops to Conquer
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Pygmalion
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The Knight of the Burning Pestle
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Three Late Medieval Morality Plays: Everyman, Mankind and Mundus et Infans
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Thomas Middleton: Four Plays
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The Changeling
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Mrs Warren's Profession
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The Beggar's Opera
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Women Beware Women
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Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays
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The Malcontent
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The Beaux' Stratagem
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The White Devil
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The "Man of Mode"
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Bartholmew Fair
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The Witch
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780713666601 |
| ISBN 10 | 0713666609 |
| Title | The "Shoemaker's Holiday" |
| Author | Thomas Dekker |
| Series | New Mermaids |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2002-12-20 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |