Introduction to English Renaissance ComedyManchester University Press, 1999 - 186 Seiten This guide provides a comprehensive introduction to Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline comedy, covering both public and private theatres, encompassing the eclective, experimental nature of this comedy: its departures from the mainstream New Comedy tradition and its searching, witty analysis of social and personal relations in court, city and country. This book, an analysis of some of the richest comedies of the periods, makes sometimes inexpected connection between them: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest, Lyly's Endymion, Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, Marston's The Malcontent, Middleton's Michaelmas Term, Jonson's Bartholemew Fair, Shirley's The Lady of Pleasure and Brome's A Jovial Crew. Through these plays the reader is given a picture of English comedy in one of its most creative periods. |
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... Term , all of which combine sexual intrigue with chicanery involving money and land . The close concentration of these plays in a relatively short period suggests that Middleton , a busy professional writer , was playing on a fashion ...
... Term , all of which combine sexual intrigue with chicanery involving money and land . The close concentration of these plays in a relatively short period suggests that Middleton , a busy professional writer , was playing on a fashion ...
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... Term . Middleton subjects the city to the kind of scrutiny Marston had fixed on the court . Though the Induction promises nothing more than a portrait of the city going about its business , ' those familiar accidents which happen'd in ...
... Term . Middleton subjects the city to the kind of scrutiny Marston had fixed on the court . Though the Induction promises nothing more than a portrait of the city going about its business , ' those familiar accidents which happen'd in ...
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... Term himself declares in the Induction , ' Where bags are fruitful'st , the womb's most barren ; / The poor has all our children , we their wealth ' ( 22–3 ) . Shortyard , impersonating a rich citizen , explains why he and his kind are ...
... Term himself declares in the Induction , ' Where bags are fruitful'st , the womb's most barren ; / The poor has all our children , we their wealth ' ( 22–3 ) . Shortyard , impersonating a rich citizen , explains why he and his kind are ...
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Lyly Endymion | 19 |
Greene Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay | 30 |
Shakespeare A Midsummer Nights Dream | 61 |
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