Parsing the City - Jonson, Middleton, Dekker, and City Comedy''s London As Language

Informationen zum Autor Easterling, Heather Klappentext Parsing the City updates our understanding of Jacobean city comedya (TM)s discursive role in its London society. Working with three major plays by Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker! this book develops an updated reading of Jacobean city comedy as a dramatic subgenre whose engagement with early modern London was centrally linguistic and semiotic-- its plays staging and interrogating the city as a series of languages and language problems. Zusammenfassung Parsing the City updates our understanding of Jacobean city comedy’s discursive role in its London society. Working with three major plays by Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, this book develops an updated reading of Jacobean city comedy as a dramatic subgenre whose engagement with early modern London was centrally linguistic and semiotic-- its plays staging and interrogating the city as a series of languages and language problems. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments. Preface. Introduction 1. 'Noise of a Thousand Sounds': Anxious Plenty, Language, and London 2. Epicoene, Women, and the Language of the City 3. Double-Talk and the Canting Cure: The Roaring Girl’s Moll Cutpurse as the City 4. Fair Game: Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair, Language, and Play Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography. Index

Product details

• Authors: Heather Easterling, Heather (Gonzaga University Easterling, Easterling Heather
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2006
• EAN: 9780415979504
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97950-4
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600