Drama of a Nation: Public Theater in Renaissance England and Spain

absolutism absolutist actors Anderson aristocratic audience Bamba bourgeois bourgeoisie Calderón Cambridge capitalism capitalist characters Christian classical conflict court crisis critical crown crucial dramatists dramaturgy early economic Elizabethan England England and Spain English and Spanish Europe feudal France Fuente Ovejuna genre Habsburg ideological intrigue tragedy Italian Italy Jacobean Jonson King Lear late sixteenth century least literary Literature liturgical liturgical drama London Lope de Vega Lope's lower classes Madrid Marlowe medieval Merchant of Venice Middle Ages mode of production monarchy moral national history play neoclassical neofeudal nobility nonetheless peasant peasantry perhaps perspective playwrights plot political popular culture position protagonist public theater radical rebellion relations religious Renaissance Renaissance drama reveals romance romantic comedy royal ruling class satiric comedy secular sense seventeenth century Shakespeare social society Spanish Spanish drama stage structure synthesis teatro theatrical tion tradition tragic tragicomedy trans Tudor unity University Press urban York