Work and Play on the Shakespearean Stage (Paperback)

Introduction; 1. Work in sixteenth-century England; 2. 'Vpon the weke daies and worke daies at conuenient times': acting as work in Elizabethan England; 3. 'Though he be a king, yet he must labour': work and nobility in Shakespeare's histories; 4. 'We may shut vp our shops, and make holiday': workers and playhouses, 1599?1601; 5. 'Work upon that now!': labour and status on the stage, 1599?1610; Conclusion.