Book(s) For an Upcoming Paper
Jun. 8th, 2009 09:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
willowispSince I may have only mentioned this on Facebook and Twitter, quick update: I'm taking a summer course prior to attending SUNY Oswego full-time in the fall. The course is called Western Theatre: Edification or Entertainment?
For an upcoming paper I need to write a first-person account of a Londoner in late 16th or early 17th century attending one of Shakespeare's plays at the Globe. The professor doesn't want a synopsis of the play, but he does want information on the staging thereof. He also wants detail on where I live, how I get to the theatre, what it's like, concessions, and so on. Last but not least, we need three sources, not including the textbooks.
Even though the paper is a ways in the future, I'd like to get started in research. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to recommend media, especially books, which give a good historical perspective of life in that time period. The professor pointed us to a site which is a virtual tour of the Globe theatre, so I'm more interested in the other aspects of life at that time. Any and all recommendations are welcome and will be greatly appreciated.
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studentbane's well-researched Cthulu meets Victorian England RPG as a source...
For an upcoming paper I need to write a first-person account of a Londoner in late 16th or early 17th century attending one of Shakespeare's plays at the Globe. The professor doesn't want a synopsis of the play, but he does want information on the staging thereof. He also wants detail on where I live, how I get to the theatre, what it's like, concessions, and so on. Last but not least, we need three sources, not including the textbooks.
Even though the paper is a ways in the future, I'd like to get started in research. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to recommend media, especially books, which give a good historical perspective of life in that time period. The professor pointed us to a site which is a virtual tour of the Globe theatre, so I'm more interested in the other aspects of life at that time. Any and all recommendations are welcome and will be greatly appreciated.
Now if only I could use
studentbane's well-researched Cthulu meets Victorian England RPG as a source...
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Date: 2009-06-09 02:16 pm (UTC)Other important social bits to keep in mind: neither police forces nor fire brigades have been invented yet. Some localities pay their own thugs to keep off the other thugs, but unless you're royalty and can afford your own personal army, that's as close as you get to official law and order. I can't find the citation offhand, but I have read that the murder rates in big cities through the medieval period, anyway, exceeded that in some war zones today. Still, it's not so rampant and chaotic that society completely breaks down and people flee the city. (That takes a plague. Or lots of raw sewage in the summer sun.) There were, however, courts and trials and a justice process and so on. And the heads of traitors and criminals were hung on pikes at the south gate of London Bridge.
I wish that I had better physical references to recommend. Most of what I know came off the 'net or from wandering around being a tourist here.