Nina Levine's Practicing the City: Early Modern London On Stage is nothing short of brilliant. Her intellectually challenging scholarship should make any serious scholar rethink received wisdom regarding the interactions between the city of London and the early modern stage in so many perceptive and provocative ways.
The Sixteenth Century Journal
Well researched, subtly nuanced, and sophisticated in ... Read moreits theoretical and cultural contextualization of the plays, Levine's book is a welcome addition to recent work on the relationship between the early modern metropolis and the stage, as well as to the latest research on city drama.
Renaissance Quarterly
Practicing the City makes a substantial, original contribution to the expansion of our understanding of the interrelation of London and early modern drama in the light of the unprecedented urbanization that occurred in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
-James R. Siemon
Boston University
Instead of choosing a single, limiting dominant metaphor or thematic element to organize the book, Nina Levine manages the difficult task of weaving together a range of organizing principles across the chapters. That diversity of topics creates a multifaceted argument that matches early modern London, its politics, its culture, and its plays in breadth and complexity.
-Adam Zucker
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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