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Radical Comedy in Early Modern England - Contexts, Cultures, Performances

English · Paperback / Softback

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Zusatztext 'Radical Comedy in Early Modern England considers work by Jonson and Marston as well as the Wakefield Master! Christopher Marlowe! Thomas Dekker! John Harington and Thomas Middleton! and is perhaps best described as a celebratory discussion of some memorable texts and their contexts.' English Studies Informationen zum Autor Rick Bowers is a Professor of English in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta in Canada. Klappentext Identifying a pattern of social defiance, this book explores the radical nature of early modern English comedy and uses comedy as a means to observe changes in human behavior common to the Renaissance. Bowers demonstrates how the satirical comedic actions found within Dekker's pamphlets, Harington's discourse, and the dramas of Marston, Middleton, and Jonson are all driven by energetic comic elements to criticize authority and implement social change. Zusammenfassung Drawing on the generic and mythic strength of comedy and the theories of Bakhtin! Bergson! and Hobbes! this book identifies the radical nature of early modern English comedy. The satirical comedic actions that shape the "Shepherds' Play!" Thomas Dekker's pamphlets! and the comic dramas of Marston! Middleton! and Jonson are all driven! Bowers points out! by an ability to criticize authority! assert plebeian culture! and insist on the complexity and innovation of human discourse. The texts examined (including The Jew of Malta! Metamorphosis of Ajax! Antonio and Mellida! Bartholomew Fair! The Alchemist! and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside) simultaneously create and employ standard comedic elements. Farce! absurdity! excess! over-the-top characters! unremitting irony! black humor! toilet humor! and tricksters of all types - such features and more combine to satirize medical! religious! and political authority and to implement necessary social change. Written with a narrative ease! Radical Comedy in Early Modern England shows how comic interventions both describe and reconfigure prevalent authority in its own time while arguing that! through early modern comedy! one can observe the changes in social behavior and understandings characteristic of the Renaissance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction: Comic Performance; Chapter 2 Enter the Comic Hero: The Performance of Mak in the Second Shepherds’ Play; Chapter 3 Wrestling with Comic Villainy: Barabas and other “Heels” in The Jew of Malta; Chapter 4 Grinning and Bearing it: A Plague of Storytelling in The Wonderfull Yeare (1603); Chapter 5 Humor in High (and low) Places: Toilet Tales and The Metamorphosis of Ajax; Chapter 6 Marston’s Absurd Theater: The Antonio Plays; Chapter 7 Sex, Lies, Carnival, and Class: A Chaste Maid in Cheapside; Chapter 8 “Of What Bigness? / Huge”: Ben Jonson’s Supersized Comedy;...

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Authors Rick Bowers, Bowers Rick
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd.
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 09.09.2016
 
EAN 9781138252707
ISBN 978-1-138-25270-7
No. of pages 132
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

LITERARY CRITICISM / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800

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