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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... look is needed at the much - derided scene in which Brome introduces three supernumerary characters , ' The three Graces of the Court , the Lady Stately , the Lady Handsome , and the Lady peerelese ' . The ladies are invited to tread A ...
... look upon The Giants , that over - threw him : Though they strut And are swolne bigger by his emptiness . ( 1.437 ) In contrast to The Antipodes where place - realism serves to represent fantastic locations , in The Damoiselle the ...
... look at his career in this period , since it goes a long way towards explaining how his work came to be perceived in the way it is . It is true that , after the closure of the theatres , little is known for certain concerning Brome's ...
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