Mother Bombie - John Lyly

Mother Bombie is unique among Lyly's comedies. Structured upon a Roman New Comedy model, the play turns on a tissue of misconceptions surrounding the efforts of four fathers to secure socially advantageous marriages for their heirs and the determination of their young servants to exploit their masters' aspirations for their own advantage.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General editors' preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
THE TEXT
Authorship and date
Sources and contexts
Style and structure
Cunning and folly
Marginalization
Dramaturgy, staging, and the stage history of the play
Critical reception
This edition
Notes
Mother Bombie
Appendix: historical collation.
Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Leah Scragg is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Manchester

Zusammenfassung

Mother Bombie is unique among Lyly’s comedies. Structured upon a Roman New Comedy model, the play turns on a tissue of misconceptions surrounding the efforts of four fathers to secure socially advantageous marriages for their heirs and the determination of their young servants to exploit their masters’ aspirations for their own advantage. -- .

Produktdetails

• Autoren: John Lyly, Leah Scragg
• Mitarbeit: Stephen Bevington (Herausgeber), Richard Dutton (Herausgeber), Leah Scragg (Herausgeber), Scragg Leah (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.09.2014
• EAN: 9780719096884
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9688-4
• Seiten: 240
• Serien: The Revels Plays; The Revels Plays
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; DRAMA / General, Plays, Playscripts, Plays, playscripts, drama