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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... audience to make it seem more like magic when Bottom appears as his old self again . But the open stage of an Elizabethan playhouse , lit by daylight , lacking in scenery and with a wrap - around audience , is no place to hide anything ...
... audience to make it seem more like magic when Bottom appears as his old self again . But the open stage of an Elizabethan playhouse , lit by daylight , lacking in scenery and with a wrap - around audience , is no place to hide anything ...
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... audience member in need of help , and accordingly helps him . Even in this extempore moment the general strategy of Quince and his company holds . They have potentially great power over their audience , as their audience has over them ...
... audience member in need of help , and accordingly helps him . Even in this extempore moment the general strategy of Quince and his company holds . They have potentially great power over their audience , as their audience has over them ...
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... audience's patience : ' He that should begin the play , Master Littlewit , the Proctor , has a stitch new fallen in his black silk stocking ; ' twill be drawn up ere you can tell twenty ' ( 2-4 ) . The audience has time to tell much ...
... audience's patience : ' He that should begin the play , Master Littlewit , the Proctor , has a stitch new fallen in his black silk stocking ; ' twill be drawn up ere you can tell twenty ' ( 2-4 ) . The audience has time to tell much ...
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Lyly Endymion | 19 |
Greene Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay | 30 |
Shakespeare A Midsummer Nights Dream | 61 |
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