{"product_id":"the-idea-of-the-city-in-the-age-of-shakespeare-paperback","title":"The Idea of the City in the Age of Shakespeare - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGail Kern Paster\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGail Kern Paster explores the role of the city in the works of William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, and Ben Jonson. Paster moves beyond the usual presentation of the city-country dichotomy to reveal a series of oppositions that operate within the city's walls. These oppositions--city of God and city of man, Jerusalem and Rome, bride of the Lamb and whore of Babylon, ideal and real--together create a dual image of the city as a visionary ideal society and as a predatory trap, founded in fratricide, shadowed in guilt. In the theater, this duality affects the fate of early modern city dwellers, who exemplify even as they are controlled by this contradictory reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGAIL KERN PASTER is the director of the Folger Shakespeare Library and editor of the\u003ci\u003e Shakespeare Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eHumoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Body Embarrassed: Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.66 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 28, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130422464647,"sku":"9780820338576","price":59.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/39b64968158dc7fafa32b15c56ea81dd.webp?v=1732610675","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-idea-of-the-city-in-the-age-of-shakespeare-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}