Jacobean City Comedy - Couverture souple

Gibbons, Brian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 113827996X ISBN 13 : 9781138279964

Editeur : Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

The first decade of the Jacobean age witnessed a sudden profusion of comedies satirizing city life; among these were comedies by Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton, as well as the bulk of the repertory of the newly-established children's companies at Blackfriars and Paul's. The playwrights self-consciously forged a new genre which attracted London audiences with its images of folly and vice in Court and City, and hack-writing dramatists were prompt to cash in on a new theatrical fashion.

This study, first published in 1980, examines ways in which the Jacobean city comedy reflect on the self-consciousness of audiences and the concern of the dramatists with Jacobean society. This title will be of interest of students of Renaissance Drama, English Literature and Performance.

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Brian Gibbons

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 113827996X
• ISBN 13: 9781138279964
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
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