Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre podcast

The Shoemaker's Holiday: Thomas Dekker

2009-11-06

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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The Shoemaker's Holiday: Thomas Dekker
2009-11-06
45:33
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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