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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... final twist it is revealed that Jaconetta was never in danger of being dishonoured anyway , being really a transvestite male eunuch named Jacomo . In the whole play , no sexual impropriety actually takes place . Whether this ' honesty ...
... final sociopolitical reaffirmation of a double sexual standard in marriage . What is telling is Lady Thrivewell's specific recognition and moral challenge to the pain that the double sexual standard inflicts on wives and the play's ...
... final closure of the theatres in September 1642. However , this is not a safe deduction , and what evidence there is is quite compatible with a date of late 1641 by the calendar year , indeed late 1641 of the civic year , which ran up ...
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