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Jacobean City Comedy (Routledge Library Editions: Renaissance Drama) - Softcover

Gibbons, Brian

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9781138279964: Jacobean City Comedy (Routledge Library Editions: Renaissance Drama)
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ISBN 10: 113827996X ISBN 13: 9781138279964
Publisher: 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

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
113827996X
ISBN 13 
9781138279964
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
196
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