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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... 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 curious knot upon this grassie square ...
... scene is set in the New Exchange , which , like the other locations in 1630s place- realism comedies , offers an arena where characters of different social classes can interact . Also typical of such ' away ' scenes is the introduction ...
... scene set in London's ' elite shopping centre ' , the language gains extra force.73 But the implications of the Exchange run far wider than just this one scene . Rafe talks of the Exchange as a whole as the repository of a proverbially ...
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