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The Shoemaker's Holiday: Thomas Dekker

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Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre
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Like a Busby Berkeley depression-era musical, Dekker's comedy is a feel-good antidote to a context of shortages, political malaise and general pessimism, but real life in the shape of war, class antagonism and civic tensions, always threatens to intrude.

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Episode Information

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Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre
People
Emma Smith
Keywords
jacobean
language
theatre
elizabethan
renaissance
emma smith
english
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 06/11/2009
Duration: 00:45:33

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