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The Shoemaker's Holiday: Thomas Dekker

Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre by Oxford University

Nov 6, 200945:33Education

Like a Busby Berkeley depression-era musical, Dekker's comedy is a feel-good antidote to a context of shortages, political malaise and general pessimism, but real life in the shape of war, class antagonism and civic tens...

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The Shoemaker's Holiday: Thomas Dekker is an episode from Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre by Oxford University. Like a Busby Berkeley depression-era musical, Dekker's comedy is a feel-good antidote to a context of...

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Published Nov 6, 2009, 45:33 long, audio available.