Richard Brome: Place and Politics on the Caroline StageManchester University Press, 2004 - 222 Seiten Richard Brome was the leading comic playwright of 1630s London. Starting his career as a manservant to Ben Jonson, he wrote a string of highly successful comedies which were influential in British theatre long after Brome's own playwriting career was cut short by the closure of the theatres in 1642. |
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... plague closure of 1636 highlights the extent to which the view of such mental illness is coloured by the ever- present threat of plague . The plague context also chimes interestingly with the play's treatment of geography . In The ...
... plague . Plague out- breaks in early modern England caused a mass exodus of people , par- ticularly of the wealthy , as far as possible from the site of the infection : but in literary figurations of the plague the recurring motif is ...
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