Mr. Turbulent: A Critical Edition

ISBN-13: 9783034338417 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 282 str.

Jorge Blanco-Vacas

Opis

This critical edition offers a fully annotated modernized text of the Restoration comedy «Mr. Turbulent» . The introduction adresses topics such as the political dimension of the green spaces of Restoration London represented onstage; and the rethorical use of madness associated with the Bedlam hospital for the insane.

Spis treści

The stage history of Mr. Turbulent - Comedy in the late Carolean period (1678-1682): a stage in crisis - Mr. Turbulent: politics, place and identity - Moorfields: green spaces and tory anxieties - Bedlam: madness as a political trope - Monetary units alluded to in Mr. Turbulent

O autorze

Jorge Blanco-Vacas holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the Universidad de Sevilla. He is a member of the Restoration Comedy Project. His research interests include anonymity in the late Carolean stage, textual topographies of London in the Restoration period and the relations between drama, politics and religion in the late seventeenth century.