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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... characters are both named Constance ( 3.20 ) . Although Fitchow soon returns to her role as the butt of the comedy , threatening violence and being partially humiliated , this sudden deepening of her character is remarkable , and gives ...
... characters who do not interact directly with any of the named characters , as was seen , for instance , in Act 3 of The Spara- gus Garden . But use of all these devices constitutes of course something of a subversion of place - realism ...
... characters in the play can be fitted in to one or other of the character - types the Poet proposes in this comedy of arrogance and downfall . Randall and his fellow - servants are an exception , and , if con- tinuity and a sense of ...
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