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Author_Dieter Mehl
Bartholomew Fair
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Brian Gibbons
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Burning Pestle
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Chaste Maid
Citizen Comedy
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CITY COMEDY
Civic Pageantry
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Comic Ending
credit economy literature
Cuckold's Haven
Cuckold’s Haven
Dutch Courtesan
Early Modem
early modern drama
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Eastward Ho
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Honest Whore
jacobean
Jacobean City Comedy
Jacobean theatre historical context
London Prodigal
Lord Mayor's Show
Lord Mayor’s Show
Penitent Brothellers
pestle
petronel
Played Back
playhouse audience dynamics
Protestant Reformation studies
Satiric City Comedy
Shoemaker's Holiday
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Sir Petronel
theatrical culture
Touchwood Junior
urban satire
Vice Versa
Woman's Prize
Woman’s Prize
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138266568
- Weight: 460g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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With the publication of Brian Gibbons's Jacobean City Comedy thirty-five years ago, the urban satires by Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton attained their 'official status as a Renaissance subgenre' that was distinct, by its farcical humour and ironic tone, from 'citizen comedy' or 'London drama' more generally. This retrospective genre-building has proved immensely fruitful in the study of early modern English drama; and although city comedies may not yet rival Shakespeare's plays in the amount of editorial work and critical acclaim they receive, both the theatrical contexts and the dramatic complexity of the genre itself, and its interrelations with Shakespearean drama justly command an increasing level of attention. Looking at a broad range of plays written between the 1590s and the 1630s - master-pieces of the genre like Eastward Ho, A Trick to Catch the Old One, The Dutch Courtesan and The Devil is an Ass, blends of romance and satire like The Shoemaker's Holiday and The Knight of the Burning Pestle, and bourgeois oddities in the Shakespearean manner like The London Prodigal - the twelve essays in this volume re-examine city comedy in the light of recently foregrounded historical contexts such as early modern capitalism, urban culture, the Protestant Reformation, and playhouse politics. Further, they explore the interrelations between city comedy and Shakespearean comedy both from the perspective of author rivalry and in terms of modern adaptations: the twenty-first-century concept of 'popular Shakespeare' (above all in the movie sector) seems to realign the comparatively time- and placeless Shakespearean drama with the gritty, noisy and bustling urban scene that has been city comedy's traditional preserve.
