Four Renaissance Comedies

Robert Shaughnessy (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

344 Seiten

2003
Red Globe Press (Verlag)
978-0-333-97365-3 (ISBN)

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This edition of four Renaissance comedies represents the vitality, range and diversity of the English comic drama of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, reflecting both its capacity for escapist fantasy and its concern with the intrigues of everyday city life. Comprehensive textual notes establish the plays in their originating cultural and theatrical circumstances, as well as explaining obscure references and allusions. A general introduction provides a helpful overview of early modern comedy in the context of Renaissance comic theory and practice, together with an assessment of its continuing theatrical appeal.

ROBERT SHAUGHNESSY is Professor of Theatre at the University of Surrey Roehampton.

Acknowledgements.- General Introduction.- Note on the Texts.- The Old Wives Tale.- The Shoemaker's Holiday.- The Alchemist.- A New Way to Pay Old Debts.- Further Reading.- Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.11.2003
Zusatzinfo	344 p.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	439 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-333-97365-8 / 0333973658
ISBN-13	978-0-333-97365-3 / 9780333973653
Zustand	Neuware