The "Shoemaker's Holiday"
The "Shoemaker's Holiday"
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Summary
Offering commentary notes on classic plays, this book contains the script of this Elizabethan comedy. The text also features an account of recent productions of the play and offers information on lexical and staging matters.
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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.| 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 |