Jacobean City Comedy

ISBN-13: 9781138279964 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 196 str.

Brian Gibbons

Opis

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