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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... island of Britain , although it is never named , is a presence in the background of the play , since at one point Mildred imagines , ' Were I sole monarchess of all this Island ' ( 3.452 ) : but as far as the world of the play is ...
... Island of two Acres here , more profitable than twice two thou- sand in the Fens , till the drainers have done there . ( 3.157 ) ' Province ' , clearly , is a term with heavy overtones of the Dutch United Provinces . Once again , the ...
... islands , and river islands : Gilbert's joking description here of the garden as an ' island ' causes it to straddle all four of these categories and makes a tangled legal position even worse.37 And , in the light of the debate about ...
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