Output details
29 - English Language and Literature
University College London
Chapter title
"Cool Britannia" 1599: Poete, Medecin, et Jules Cesar a Londres
Type
C - Chapter in book
DOI
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Publisher of book
PUPS (Presses de l'universite Paris-Sorbonne)
Book title
Histoire, écologie et anthropologie : Trois générations face à l'oeuvre d'Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
ISBN of book
9782840507963
Year of publication
2011
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
In the autumn of 1599 the Swiss traveller and diarist Thomas Platter visited London and went to the theatre, in spite of the fact that he did not speak English. His accounts of what he saw are therefore of theatre-as-mime. He saw two plays at the Curtain and Globe. One of these is now lost, the other was Shakespeare’s new play Julius Caesar written for the recently built Globe Theatre. The essay analyses Platter’s progress through London in the context of Le Roy Ladurie’s research into the evidential value of Platter’s recollections, which rank among the richest in the period
