Jacobean City Comedy

List of contents

Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgements; 1. City comedy as a genre 2. A fountain stirr’d: city comedy in relation to the social and economic background 3. The approaching equinox: politics and city comedy 4. To strip the ragged follies of the time 5. Marston and the Court: folly and corruption 6. Money makes the world go around: the city satirized 7. Conventional plays 1604-7 8. Middleton and Jonson 9. Bartholomew Fair and The Devil Is an Ass: city comedy at the zenith; Appendix; Notes; Select bibliography; Index

About the author

Brian Gibbons

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Gibbons, Brian Gibbons
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781138279964
• ISBN: 978-1-138-27996-4
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Renaissance Drama; Routledge Library Editions: Renaissance Drama
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Performing Arts, English, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Creative writing and creative writing guides, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Theatre direction and production, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600