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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... masque , mostly because the show Prospero puts on for Ferdinand and Miranda , with its allegorical dialogue and its celebratory dance , recalls the masques of the Jacobean court . Ben Jonson's The Masque of Queens ( 1606 ) is a classic ...
... masque , mostly because the show Prospero puts on for Ferdinand and Miranda , with its allegorical dialogue and its celebratory dance , recalls the masques of the Jacobean court . Ben Jonson's The Masque of Queens ( 1606 ) is a classic ...
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Alexander Leggatt. spectacular scenery , a key element in the court masque , is missing . There is no monarch in the audience to be celebrated as the source of light , order and power , as James is in the typical masque ; if any power is ...
Alexander Leggatt. spectacular scenery , a key element in the court masque , is missing . There is no monarch in the audience to be celebrated as the source of light , order and power , as James is in the typical masque ; if any power is ...
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... masque . - The vision of harmony and fertility that the masque creates is oddly sexless : it is all about the land and the crops , ' Earth's increase , foison plenty , / Barns and garners never empty ' ( 4.1.110–11 ) . Venus and Cupid ...
... masque . - The vision of harmony and fertility that the masque creates is oddly sexless : it is all about the land and the crops , ' Earth's increase , foison plenty , / Barns and garners never empty ' ( 4.1.110–11 ) . Venus and Cupid ...
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Lyly Endymion | 19 |
Greene Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay | 30 |
Shakespeare A Midsummer Nights Dream | 61 |
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