The Third Citizen: Shakespeare's Theater and the Early Modern House of Commons

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Figure 1. The House of Commons in St. Stephen’s Chapel. Engraving, 1624. Harley MS, fol. 4. Reproduced by permission of the British Library. Figure 2. The Names of the knights, citizens and burgesses of the counties, cities and burrough-townes of England and Wales and the Baronie of the Ports now sitting in Parliament, holden at Westminster the 17 of March 1627. Woodcut, 1628. © The Society of Antiquaries, London. Reproduced by permission. Figure 3. Platform of the lower house of this present Parliament, assembled the thirteenth day of April, 1640. Engraving, 1640. British Museum Print Room. Reproduced by permission of the British Museum. Figure 4. James I in the House of Lords. Engraving by Ronald Elstrack, 1604. Reproduced by permission of the British Museum. Figure 5. The Manner of the sitting of the Lords spirituall and temporall, as peeres of the realme in the higher house of Parliament, according to their dignities, offices, and degrees, with other officers of their attendance. Woodcut, 1628. © The Society of Antiquaries, London. Reproduced by permission. Figure 6. Filippino Lippi, Storia di Virginia (1470–80?). Louvre, Paris. Photo: Erich Lessing/Art Resource, N.Y. Reproduced by permission. Figure 7. Detail of Filippino Lippi, Storia di Virginia. Photo: Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, N.Y. Reproduced by permission. Figure 8. An A.B.C. with a Catechisme. London, 1551. Civv –Cvir . Reproduced by permission of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester. ...