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- ISBN 9783034338417
- Weight: 370g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 29 Apr 2020
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Paperback
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Mr. Turbulent (1682) is an anonymous city comedy which starred popular comic actors and young actresses of great appeal. The play was produced in the immediate aftermath of the Exclusion Crisis. This first-ever critical edition offers a fully annotated modernized version of the text, together with an introduction that examines the contexts of the play. The editor also discusses at length such topics as the political dimension of the Moorfields setting and the green spaces of Restoration London. He examines as well the rethorical use of madness associated with the Bedlam hospital for the insane, the other pivotal cityscape setting in the comedy.
Jorge Blanco-Vacas holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the Universidad de Sevilla. He is a member of the Restoration Comedy Project. His research interests include anonymity in the late Carolean stage, textual topographies of London in the Restoration period and the relations between drama, politics and religion in the late seventeenth century.
