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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... figure of Tellus does not quite do , the misogyny that is the reverse side of the play's adoration of Cynthia . We see this in the crone- comedy of Sir Tophas's tribute to her beauty : ' In how sweet a proportion her cheeks hang down to ...
... figure of Tellus does not quite do , the misogyny that is the reverse side of the play's adoration of Cynthia . We see this in the crone- comedy of Sir Tophas's tribute to her beauty : ' In how sweet a proportion her cheeks hang down to ...
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... figure : I have a widow aunt , a dowager Of great revenue , and she hath no child . From Athens is her house remote seven leagues - And she respects me as her only son - There , gentle Hermia , may I marry thee , And to that place the ...
... figure : I have a widow aunt , a dowager Of great revenue , and she hath no child . From Athens is her house remote seven leagues - And she respects me as her only son - There , gentle Hermia , may I marry thee , And to that place the ...
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... figure appears in Jacobean comedy it is in the unstable , internally divided figures of Malevole - Altofront and Prospero , who still keep a kind of control but are under a scrutiny more overt than that which affects Cynthia . When ...
... figure appears in Jacobean comedy it is in the unstable , internally divided figures of Malevole - Altofront and Prospero , who still keep a kind of control but are under a scrutiny more overt than that which affects Cynthia . When ...
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Lyly Endymion | 19 |
Greene Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay | 30 |
Shakespeare A Midsummer Nights Dream | 61 |
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