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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... means restricted to these two plays . And although his plays dropped out of the performance repertoire after 1819 , recent revivals and adaptations are rediscovering their dramatic possibilities ( Chapter 8 ) . Historically ...
... means of enforcing policy , developing legal devices as fiscal expedients , and appealing to judicial opinions as a substitute for a sanction he could not rely on parliament to provide . The Londoners who saw The Damoiselle had listened ...
... means of an elaborate trap , Stratocles's path is made smooth by the fact that the other characters are so ineffec- tual . His man Matho simply forges and delivers a pair of challenges to duel , and the two heroes are only too ready to ...
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