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The Guild and Guild Buildings of Shakespeare's Stratford - Society, Religion, School and Stage (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Guild and Guild Buildings of Shakespeare's Stratford - Society, Religion, School and Stage (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The guild buildings of Shakespeare's Stratford represent a rare
instance of a largely unchanged set of buildings which draw
together the threads of the town's civic life. With its
multi-disciplinary perspectives on this remarkable group of
buildings, this volume provides a comprehensive account of the
religious, educational, legal, social and theatrical history of
Stratford, focusing on the sixteenth century and Tudor Reformation.
The essays interweave with one another to provide a map of the
complex relationships between the buildings and their history.
Opening with an investigation of the Guildhall, which served as the
headquarters of the Guild of the Holy Cross until the Tudor
Reformation, the book explores the building's function as a centre
of local government and community law and as a place of
entertainment and education. It is beyond serious doubt that
Shakespeare was a school boy here, and the many visits to the
Guildhall by professional touring players during the latter half of
the sixteenth-century may have prompted his acting and playwriting
career. The Guildhall continues to this day to house a school for
the education of secondary-level boys. The book considers
educational provision during the mid sixteenth century as well as
examining the interaction between touring players and the everyday
politics and social life of Stratford. At the heart of the volume
is archaeological and documentary research which uses up-to-date
analysis and new dendrochronological investigations to interpret
the buildings and their medieval wall paintings as well as
proposing a possible location of the school before it transferred
to the Guildhall. Together with extensive archival research into
the town's Court of Record which throws light on the commercial and
social activities of the period, this rich body of research brings
us closer to life as it was lived in Shakespeare's Stratford.
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