Jacobean City Comedy

ISBN-13: 9781138279957 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 196 str.

Brian Gibbons

Opis

The first decade of the Jacobean age witnessed a sudden profusion of comedies satirizing city life; among these were comedies by Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton, as well as the bulk of the repertory of the newly-established children s companies at Blackfriars and Paul s. The playwrights self-consciously forged a new genre which attracted London audiences with its images of folly and vice in Court and City, and hack-writing dramatists were prompt to cash in on a new theatrical fashion.

This study, first published in 1980, examines ways in which the Jacobean city comedy reflect on the self-consciousness of audiences and the concern of the dramatists with Jacobean society. This title will be of interest of students of Renaissance Drama, English Literature and Performance. "

Spis treści

Preface to the Second Edition;  Acknowledgements;  1. City comedy as a genre  2. A fountain stirr’d: city comedy in relation to the social and economic background  3. The approaching equinox: politics and city comedy  4. To strip the ragged follies of the time  5. Marston and the Court: folly and corruption  6. Money makes the world go around: the city satirized  7. Conventional plays 1604-7  8. Middleton and Jonson  9. Bartholomew Fair and The Devil Is an Ass: city comedy at the zenith;  Appendix;  Notes;  Select bibliography;  Index

O autorze

Brian Gibbons