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The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London

The City and its Double

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  • © 2005

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  1. Ian Munro
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Part of the book series: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700 (EMCSS)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Crowded Spaces

    • Ian Munro
    Pages 1-13

  3. Imaginary Numbers: City, Crowd, Theater

    • Ian Munro
    Pages 15-50

  4. London’s Mirror: Civic Ritual and the Crowd

    • Ian Munro
    Pages 51-73

  5. “Shakespeare’s London”: the Scene of London in the Second Tetralogy and Henry VIII

    • Ian Munro
    Pages 75-103

  6. Distracted Multitude: The Theater and The Many-Headed Monster

    • Ian Munro
    Pages 105-141

  7. “Rome, etc.”: Sejanus, Julius Caesar, and the Prodigious City

    • Ian Munro
    Pages 143-173

  8. “A Kind of Nothing”: Plague Time in Early Modern London

    • Ian Munro
    Pages 175-199

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 201-255
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About this book

The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London examines the cultural phenomenon of the urban crowd in the context of early modern London's population crisis. The book explores the crowd's double function as a symbol of the city's growth and as the necessary context for the public performance of urban culture. Its central argument is that the figure of the crowd acts as a supplement to the symbolic space of the city, at once providing a tangible referent for urban meaning and threatening the legibility of that meaning through its motive force and uncontrollable energy.

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"Ian Munro s clever and informative account of London in the early modern period takes as its focus the dual nature of the growing metropolis - the city and its people - and argues that the two are inseparable but, surprisingly, finally amount to nothing. " - Renaissance Quarterly

"[A] clever and informative account of London in the early modern period". - Sharon A. Beehler, Montana State University - Bozeman

About the author

IAN MUNRO is a specialist in early modern theater, literature and culture. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1998 and now teaches at the University of Alberta, Canada.

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