English Calvinism and the crowd: Coriolanus and the history of religious reform.

From: Church History | Date: June 1, 2006| Author: Kaufman, Peter Iver | Copyright information

Late Tudor London comes alive when Stephen Greenblatt's acclaimed biography of William Shakespeare, shadowing its subject, takes to the streets. "The unprecedented concentration of bodies jostling ... crossing and recrossing the great bridge, pressing into taverns and theaters and churches," Greenblatt suggests, is a "key to the whole spectacle" of crowds in the playwright's histories and tragedies. To be sure, his little excursions in London left their mark on his scripts, yet he ...

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