The Shoemaker's Holiday

by Thomas Dekker

By: Robert Smallwood (Editor), Stanley Wells (Editor), Richard Dutton (Editor), Alison Findlay (Editor), Helen Ostovich (Editor)

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Paperback | 15 July 1999

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Thomas Dekker''s The Shoemaker''s Holiday is one of the most popular of Elizabethan plays, entertaining, racy and vivid in its characterisation. Revealing a vital portrait of Elizabethan London and the interaction of social classes within the city, its social commentary is on the whole optimistic, though darker tones are discernible. The play has the whole optimistic, though darker tones are discernible. The play has had a lively history of performance on both the professional and amateur stage; the roles of Simon and Madgy Eyre in particular have proved worthy vehicles for the talents of such performers as Sir Donald Wolfit and Dame Edith Evans, and a notable production was directed by Orson Wells.

The editors offer a study of the text; a historical and critical introduction, which includes a study of the play''s relationship with contemporary life and drama and of its place in Dekker''s work; a stage history'' a detailed commentary and a reprint of source materials.

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays Plays Arts & Entertainment Dance & Other Performing Arts Other Performing Arts History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Plays & Playwrights General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1500 to 1800

General Editors' Preface	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. x
List of Illustrations	p. xii
Introduction
Dekker's career: the play in its biographical context	p. 1
Date: the play in its historical and literary context	p. 8
The use of source material	p. 17
The play	p. 26
The play on the stage
The original staging	p. 44
Later stage history	p. 47
The text
Early editions	p. 53
Later editions	p. 58
The present text	p. 62
Act-and scene divisions	p. 63
The Shoemaker's Holiday	p. 71
Appendices
Dekker's use of The Gentle Craft	p. 203
The play's title	p. 219
Index to the Commentary	p. 222
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