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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... actors acting : in the scenes with the glass , one set of characters spies on another set , supposedly miles away ; distance is abolished simply by having them share the same stage . With equal simplicity , the effect of the magic ...
... actors acting : in the scenes with the glass , one set of characters spies on another set , supposedly miles away ; distance is abolished simply by having them share the same stage . With equal simplicity , the effect of the magic ...
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... actor impersonate the moon ? Of all the actors Starveling gets the roughest treatment from the audience : he is the only one who is interrupted to the extent that he cannot carry on . But in general the actors imagine they are wielding ...
... actor impersonate the moon ? Of all the actors Starveling gets the roughest treatment from the audience : he is the only one who is interrupted to the extent that he cannot carry on . But in general the actors imagine they are wielding ...
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... actors ' show as merely feeble , drawing only condescending laughter . We are watching not just Athens's worst actors , but England's best , and the latter group may well be up to something . In some ways , though not in the way Quince ...
... actors ' show as merely feeble , drawing only condescending laughter . We are watching not just Athens's worst actors , but England's best , and the latter group may well be up to something . In some ways , though not in the way Quince ...
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Lyly Endymion | 19 |
Greene Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay | 30 |
Shakespeare A Midsummer Nights Dream | 61 |
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