Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies

Klappentext This excellent volume brings together four of the most popular, most frequently studied and performed comedies that depict city life, by Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson and their contemporaries. Included are The Roaring Girl, The Shoemaker's Holiday, Eastward Ho!, and Every Man in His Humour. The text is freshly edited using modern spelling. A critical introduction, a wide-ranging annotation, and an informative bibliography illuminate the plays' cultural contexts and theatrical potential for reader and performer alike. Zusammenfassung This volume offers excellent value by bringing together four of the most popular, most frequently studied and performed, city comedies by Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson and their contemporaries. Each of the plays features tradesmen - a shoemaker, goldsmith, merchant, shop-keepers - and depicts bustling city life. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Shoemaker's Holiday Eastward Ho Every Man In His Humour The Roaring Girl

Product details

• Authors: George Chapman, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Jonson Dekker, Ben Jonson, Jonson Ben, Thomas Middleton, Middleton Thomas
• Assisted by: James Knowles (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.06.2008
• EAN: 9780199540105
• ISBN: 978-0-19-954010-5
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 195 mm x 30 mm
• Series: World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; DRAMA / General, Plays, Playscripts, Plays, playscripts, drama