Shakespeare lived his professional life amid the London streets and
died a prominent figure in the town of Stratford. The language of
his plays is shot through with the concerns of London "freemen" and
their wives, the diverse commercial class that nevertheless
excluded adult immigrants from country towns and northern Europe
alike. This book combines London historiography, close reading, and
recent theories of citizen subjectivity to demonstrate for the
first time that Shakespeare's plays embody citizen and alien
identities despite their aristocratic settings. The book points out
where the city shadows the country scenes of the major comedies,
shows how London's trades animate the "civil butchery" of the
history plays, and explains why England's metropolis becomes the
fractured Rome of tragedy.
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