Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London

IAN MUNRO is a specialist in early modern theater, literature and culture. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1998 and now teaches at the University of Alberta, Canada.

• Introduction: Crowded Spaces Imaginary Numbers: City, Crowd, Theatre London's Mirror: Civic Ritual and the Crowd "Shakespeare's London": The Scene of London in the Second Tetralogy and Henry VIII Distracted Multitude: The Theatre and the Many-Headed Monster

"Ian Munro s clever and informative account of London in the early modern period takes as its focus the dual nature of the growing metropolis - the city and its people - and argues that the two are inseparable but, surprisingly, finally amount to nothing. " - Renaissance Quarterly "[A] clever and informative account of London in the early modern period". - Sharon A. Beehler, Montana State University - Bozeman