Book
The Shoemaker’s Holiday
- Published
- 1599
- Genre
- Play
- Pages
- 102
- Words
- 33554
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3100192-the-shoemaker-s-holiday
The Shoemaker's Holiday is one of the most engaging citizen comedies of the 17th century. Written and first performed at much the same time as Hamlet, it has an unexpected affinity with Shakespeare's tragedy: both feature a leading character who has spent time in Wittenberg, where he has learned something that has changed him. But whereas Hamlet's Wittenberg philosophy steers him into the realm of the individuated self, Lacy's Wittenberg trade directs him and his fellows into the world of the collectively crafted commodity.
Collections
Harvard Classics
Tags
Harvard ClassicsTheater-Plays