The Shoemaker's Holiday: Thomas Dekker

enNovember 06, 2009

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About this Episode

Like a Busby Berkeley depression-era musical, Dekker's comedy is a feel-good antidote to a context of shortages, political malaise and general pessimism, but real life in the shape of war, class antagonism and civic tensions, always threatens to intrude.

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