Blackfriars in Early Modern London

Blackfriars: Theater, Church, and Neighborhood in Early Modern London is a cultural history of an urban enclave best known in the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for the incongruous juxtaposition of playing and godly preaching. As the former site of one of London''s great religious houses, the post-Reformation Blackfriars was a Liberty free from mayoral control. The legal exemptions and ...