The Shoemaker's Holiday, or The Gentle Craft

Alternative title(s): The Shoemakers’ Holiday, or The Gentle Craft [«Shoemakers» in title page and epistle of 1600 quarto] | The Gentle Craft  [head-title and running titles in 1600 quarto; in Henslowe’s «diary»]
Author(s): Dekker, Thomas
Date of composition:
  • 1599
Date of first performance: 1599
Date of first publication: 1600
Genre (Annals): Comedy

HIERONIMO/EMOTHE text(s):
  • HIERONIMO:
  • EEBO-TCP:
  • Shakespeare His Contemporaries:
  • 1600 quarto Simmes, Valentine Printed title: THE SHOMAKERS Holiday. OR The Gentle Craft single-play print

  • STC/WING:
  • ESTC:
  • DEEP:
  • Greg:
  • Wiggins: 1188

Early Performances

  • Company: The Lord Admiral’s Men Venue: The Rose playhouse Date: 1599
    Cast:
      Location: Venue type: commercial theatre
      Note: Inferred from Henslowe’s playment dated 15 July 1599.
      Information source: Greg, Walter W., ed.. Henslowe Papers. 1907.
    • Company: Venue: Richmond Palace Date: 1600
      Cast:
        Location: Venue type: palace / court
        Note: 1 January
        Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 4: 1598-1602. 2014.

      Modern editions

      • Shaughnessy, Robert, ed. Four Renaissance Comedies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
      • Benvington, David; Engle, Lars; Eisaman, Katharine Maus; Rasmussen, Eric, ed. English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology. London and New York: W.W. Norton, 2002.
      • Knowles, James; Giddens, Eugene, ed. The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Oxford English Drama.
      • Parr, Anthony, ed. The Shoemaker’s Holiday. Dekker, Thomas. London: A & C Black, 1990. New Mermaids .
      • Smallwood, Robert; Wells, Stanley, ed. The Shoemaker’s Holiday. Dekker, Thomas. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1979. The Revels Plays.
      • Fraser, Russell A.; Rabkin, Norman, ed. Drama of the English Renaissance II: The Stuart Period. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc., 1976.
      • Palmer, D. J., ed. The Shoemaker’s Holiday. Dekker, Thomas. London: E. Benn, 1975. New Mermaids.
      • Davies, Paul C., ed. The Shoemakers’ Holiday. Dekker, Thomas. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968.
      • Steane, J. B, ed. The Shoemaker's Holiday. Dekker, Thomas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965.
      • Bowers, Fredson, ed. The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker.. Vol. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953, pp. 7-104.
      • Brooke, Charles F. Tucker; Paradise, Nathaniel Burton, ed. English Drama 1580-1642. Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, 1933.

      Select Bibliography: Criticism

      • Turner, Henry S. "Corporate Life in Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday". Ed. Arab, Ronda; Dowd, Michelle M; Zucker, Adam. Historical Affects and the Early Modern Theater. New York: Routledge, 2015, p. 182-197.
      • Lee, Huey-ling. "The Social Meaning of Money in Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice". Comparative Drama. 2015, vol. 3, 49, p. 335-366.
      • Frazer, Paul. "Moving with Marlowe (& Co.): relocation, appropriation, and personation in Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday". Marlowe Studies. 2015, 5, p. 37-60.
      • Morrow, Christopher L. "Corporate Nationalism in Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday". SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 2014, vol. 2, 54, p. 423-454.
      • Korda, Natasha. "'The Sign of the Last': Gender, Material Culture, and Artisanal Nostalgia in The Shoemaker's Holiday". Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 2013, vol. 3, 43, p. 573-597.
      • Franssen, Paul J. C. M. "'Lame and Blind': A Stage Emblem in The Shoemaker's Holiday". Notes and Queries. 2012, vol. 4, 59 (257), p. 557-559.
      • Franssen, Paul J. C. M. "Sites of Transgression: The Suburbs and the City in Thomas Dekker's Shoemaker's Holiday'". SEDERI: Yearbook of the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies. 2012, 22, p. 139-154.
      • Lawson, Andrea C. "Saying Farewell with Shoes: The Gift Cycle and Unresolved Class Tensions in 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'". Early Theatre: A Journal Associated with the Records of Early English Drama. 2012, vol. 2, 15, p. 93-110.
      • Wylde, Jacqueline. "Singing a New Song in 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'". Ed. Degenhardt, Jane Hwang; Williamson, Elizabeth. Religion and Drama in Early Modern England: The Performance of Religion on the Renaissance Stage. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011, p. 39-53.
      • Bartolovich, Crystal. "Mythos of Labor: 'The Shoemaker's Holiday' and the Origin of Citizen History". Ed. Dowd, Michelle M; Korda, Natasha. Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011, p. 17-36.
      • Archer, John Michael. "Citizens and Aliens as Working Subjects in Dekker's 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'". Ed. Dowd, Michelle M; Korda, Natasha. Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011, p. 37-52.
      • Kendrick, Matthew. "'A Shoemaker Sell Flesh and Blood?-O Indignity!': The Labouring Body and Community in 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'"". English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature. 2011, vol. 3, 92, p. 259-273.
      • Christensen, Ann C. "Being Mistress Eyre in Dekker's 'The Shoemaker's Holiday' and Deloney's The Gentle Craft". Comparative Drama. 2008, vol. 4, 42, p. 451-480.
      • Harris, Jonathan Gil. "Ludgate Time: Simon Eyre's Oath and the Temporal Economies of 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'". Huntington Library Quarterly: Studies in English and American History and Literature. 2008, vol. 1, 71, p. 11-32.
      • Montgomery, Marianne. "Speaking the Language, Knowing the Trade: Foreign Speech and Commercial Opportunity in 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'". Ed. Silcox, Mary V; Roebuck, Graham. The Mysterious and the Foreign in Early Modern England. Newark: U of Delaware P--Associated UP, 2008, p. 139-152.
      • Cheng, Elyssa Y. "A Living Libel: Thomas Dekker, 'The Shoemaker's Holiday', and the 1595 London Apprentices' Riots". Ed. Huang, Alexander C. Y.; Wang, I-chun; Theis, Mary. Class, Boundary and Social Discourse in the Renaissance. Kaohsiung: Center for Humanities and Social Sciences and College of Liberal Arts, National Sun Yat-sen University, 2007, p. 134-147.
      • Walsh, Brian. "Performing Historicity in Dekker's 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'". SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 2006, vol. 2, 46, p. 323-48.
      • Fleck, Andrew. "Marking Difference and National Identity in Dekker's 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'". SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 2006, vol. 2, 46, p. 349-70.
      • Laroque, François. "'Blue-apron culture': La Culture populaire dans '2 Henry VI' de Shakespeare et 'The Shoemaker's Holiday' de Thomas Dekker"". Ranam: Recherches Anglaises et Nord-Américaines. 2006, 39, p. 57-70.
      • Smith, Amy L. "Performing Cross-Class Clandestine Marriage in 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'". SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 2005, vol. 2, 45, p. 333-55.
      • Lin, Yi-Rung. "The Portrayal of Heroic Individualism in 'The Shoemaker's Holiday' and The Knight of the Burning Pestle". Ed. Wright, Will; Kaplan, Steven. The Image of the Hero in Literature, Media, and Society. Pueblo: Colorado State University, 2004, p. 452-59.
      • Jensen, Phebe. "Teaching Drama as Festivity: Dekker's The Shoemakers' Holiday and Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle". Ed. Bamford, Karen; Leggatt, Alexander. Approaches to Teaching English Renaissance Drama. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2002, p. 158-64.
      • Cañadas, Ivan. "Class, Gender and Community in Thomas Dekker's 'The Shoemaker's Holiday' and Lope de Vega's Fuente Ovejuna". Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 2002, vol. 2, 19, p. 119-50.
      • Arab, Ronda A. ""Work, Bodies, and Gender in 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'". Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England: An Annual Gathering of Research, Criticism and Reviews. 2001, 14, p. 144-67.
      • Whitney, Charles. "The Devil His Due: Mayor John Spencer, Elizabethan Civic Antitheatricalism, and 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'". Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England: An Annual Gathering of Research, Criticism and Reviews. 2001, 14, p. 168-85.
      • Blankenship, Bethany. "Tennis Balls in Dekker's Shoemaker's Holiday'". Notes and Queries. 2000, vol. 4, 47(245), p. 467-68.
      • McCluskey, Peter M. "'Shall I Betray My Brother?' Anti-Alien Satire and Its Subversion in 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'". Tennessee Philological Bulletin: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Tennessee Philological Association. 2000, 37, p. 43-54.
      • Kang, Du-hyoung. "Renaissance Drama and the Problem of Power: Historicizing 'The Shoemaker's Holiday' and 'Eastward Ho'". Journal of English Language and Literature/Yongo Yongmunhak. 1999, vol. 4, 45, p. 1033-57.
      • Worden, Thomas. "dols in the Early Modern Material World (1599): Deloney's The Gentle Craft, Dekker's 'The Shoemaker's Holiday', and Shakespeare's 'Henry V'". Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 1999, vol. 2, 11, p. 431-71.
      • Maynard, Stephen. "Feasting on Eyre: Community, Consumption and Communion in 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'". Comparative Drama. 1998, vol. 3, 32, p. 327-46.
      • Straznicky, Marta. "The End(s) of Discord in 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'". SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 1996, vol. 2, 36, p. 357-72.
      • Harmon, John. "The Placement of the Songs in Dekker's 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'". English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature. 1992, vol. 2, 73, p. 121-23.
      • Booth, Roy J. "Meddling with Awl: Reading Dekker's 'The Shoemaker's Holiday' (With a Note on the Merry Wives of Windsor)". English: The Journal of the English Association. 1992, vol. 171, 41, p. 193-211.
      • MacIntyre, Jeanne. "Shore's Wife and 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'". Cahiers Elisabethains: Late Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 1991, 39, p. 17-18.
      • Dominguez, Dee Dee. "'A Woman's Place': The Discrimination against Women in 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'". Conference of College Teachers of English Studies. 1991, 56, p. 35-38.
      • Ross, Gordon N. "Dekker's The Shoemakers' Holiday". Explicator. 1988, vol. 3, 46, p. 7-9.
      • Hughes, Eril Barnett. "The Tradition of the Fool in Thomas Dekker's 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'". Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association. 1982, vol. 2, 8, p. 6-10.
      • Fanego, Teresa. "La lengua de los ciudadanos en dos comedias renacentistas: 'The Shoemaker's Holiday' (1599) y The Knight of the Burning Pestle (1613)". Atlantis: Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Ingleses y Norteamericanos. 1981, vol. 2, 2, p. 21-36.
      • Mortenson, Peter. "The Economics of Joy in The Shoemakers' Holiday". SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 1976, vol. 2, 16, p. 241-52.
      • Manheim, Michael. "The Construction of The Shoemakers' Holiday". SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 1970, vol. 2, 10, p. 315-23.
      • McClure, Donald S. "Versification and Master Hammon in 'The Shoemakers' Holiday'". Studies in the Humanities. 1969, , p. 50-4.
      • Maugeri, Aldo. "Storia e leggenda nella commedia 'The Shoemaker's Holiday' di Thomas Dekker". Messina: Pubblicazioni della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università di Messina. 1956, , p. 181-92.
      • Nathan, Norman. "'Julius Caesar' and 'The Shoemakers' Holiday". Modern Language Review. 1953, 48, p. 178-179.
      • Bowers, Fredson. "Thomas Dekker, Robert Wilson, and The Shoemakers Holiday". Modern Language Notes. 1949, vol. 8, 64, p. 517-19.
      • Halstead, W. L. "New Source Influence on 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'". Modern Language Notes. 1941, vol. 2, 56, p. 127-29.
      • Chandler, W. K. "The Topography of Dekker's 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'". Studies in Philology. 1929, 26, p. 499-504.
      • Chandler, W. K. "The Sources of the Characters in 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'". Modern Philology: A Journal Devoted to Research in Medieval and Modern Literature. 1929, vol. 2, 27, p. 175-82.
      • Law, Robert Adger. "The Shoemakers' Holiday and Romeo and Juliet". Studies in Philology. 1924, 21, p. 356-61.

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