Richard Brome: Place and Politics on the Caroline StageManchester University Press, 2004 - 222 Seiten Richard Brome was the leading comic playwright of 1630s London. Starting his career as a manservant to Ben Jonson, he wrote a string of highly successful comedies which were influential in British theatre long after Brome's own playwriting career was cut short by the closure of the theatres in 1642. |
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... argues that Caroline tragi- comedy as a whole is a highly political form . For Butler , the centre of the play is a story of two unwise rulers , Bertha and Osric , being restrained by subjects who ' in desperation have taken rule into ...
... argues that this is a play that has no sympathy for or mercy on the witches , pointing out that the witches ' guilt is not in doubt within the world of the play . Furthermore , he notes the established fact that Brome's and Heywood's ...
... argues that the entertainment was indeed for the court , intended for performance in the besieged royalist stronghold of Oxford , probably to celebrate the arrival there of Queen Henrietta Maria . Cutts cites evidence from other Oxford ...
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