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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... political comment . Cynthia is a mortal ruler , admirable but not quite perfect , dealing somewhat tensely with the intrigues of a fractious court and the problems of politics . That is one side of the play's double game . The other ...
... political comment . Cynthia is a mortal ruler , admirable but not quite perfect , dealing somewhat tensely with the intrigues of a fractious court and the problems of politics . That is one side of the play's double game . The other ...
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... political action covers an unsettled year in the history of Marston's imaginary Genoa . The old Duke , Altofront , was banished but in the disguise of the malcontent Malevole he has returned to spy on his usurping successor Pietro ...
... political action covers an unsettled year in the history of Marston's imaginary Genoa . The old Duke , Altofront , was banished but in the disguise of the malcontent Malevole he has returned to spy on his usurping successor Pietro ...
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... political world ( unlike Claribel , who was a political puppet ) and over their own sexuality . Even their quarrel is significant : Miranda accuses Ferdin- and of cheating - ' Sweet lord , you play me false ' – and , when he denies it ...
... political world ( unlike Claribel , who was a political puppet ) and over their own sexuality . Even their quarrel is significant : Miranda accuses Ferdin- and of cheating - ' Sweet lord , you play me false ' – and , when he denies it ...
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Lyly Endymion | 19 |
Greene Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay | 30 |
Shakespeare A Midsummer Nights Dream | 61 |
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