Four Renaissance Comedies: The Old Wives Tale, The Shoemakers Holiday, The Alchemist, A New Way to Pay Old Debts

Shaughnessy, Robert

ISBN 10: 0333973658 / ISBN 13: 9780333973653

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, NY, 2004

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8vo.

Seller Inventory # 221101

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Four Renaissance Comedies: The Old Wives Tale, The Shoemakers Holiday, The Alchemist, A New Way to Pay Old Debts
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, NY
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333973658
• ISBN 13: 9780333973653
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Weight: 2 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Drama/Plays/Performing Arts/Shakespeare

About this title

Synopsis

This edition of four Renaissance comedies represents the vitality, range and diversity of the English comic drama of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, reflecting both its capacity for escapist fantasy and its concern with the intrigues of everyday city life. Comprehensive textual notes establish the plays in their originating cultural and theatrical circumstances, as well as explaining obscure references and allusions. A general introduction provides a helpful overview of early modern comedy in the context of Renaissance comic theory and practice, together with an assessment of its continuing theatrical appeal.

About the Author

Robert Shaughnessy is Professor of Theatre at the Guilford School of Acting, University of Surrey, UK.