Author: Richard BromePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
A Critical Edition of Brome's A Jovial Crew
Author: Richard BromeA Critical Edition of John Fletcher's Comedy, Monsieur Thomas, or, Father's Own Son
Author: John FletcherPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429575238
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
Published in 1987: This thesis presents an edition of the author’s play, Monsieur Thomas, with a substantial introduction in several sections and a sizeable apparatus.
A Jovial Crew
Author: Richard BromePublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408140136
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, is a comedy about four noble lovers who join the beggar community for a pastoral life of dance and song. Or is it? Whilst maintaining its unremitting good humour, A Jovial Crew shows that the literary depiction of beggar life, and real beggar life, are profoundly different. Daily aspects of life in the beggar world – poverty, dirt, licentiousness – come as a surprise to the well-born, who are ultimately led to question their own values. The last production mounted before theatres were closed for the English Civil War, A Jovial Crew's exploration of class, commonwealth, kinship and kingship shows an intense engagement with contemporary politics. This edition, with dedicated sections on music and language in the play, argues that A Jovial Crew also offers a nostalgic farewell to English theatre. It explores Brome's attitude to performance and print, and follows A Jovial Crew from its first, Caroline staging, to its later manifestations as a Restoration comedy, an eighteenth-century opera, and a twentieth-century proto-Marxist tragicomedy.
A Critical Edition of Richard Brome's The Weeding of Covent Garden and The Sparagus Garden
Author: Richard BromePublisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
A Critical Edition of Brome's A Northern Lasse
Author: Richard BromeA Critical Old-spelling Edition of Richard Brome's A Mad Couple Well Match'd
Author: Richard BromePublisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
Performing Economic Thought
Author: Bradley RynerPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748684662
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This study examines the structural similarities between English mercantile treatises and drama c1600-1642. Bradley D. Ryner analyses the representational conventions of plays and mercantile treatises written between the chartering of the English East India Company in 1600 and the closing of the public playhouses at the outset of the English Civil War in 1642. He shows that playwrights' manipulation of specific elements of theatrical representation - such as metaphor, props, dramatic character, stage space, audience interaction, and genre - exacerbated the tension between the aspects of the world taken into account by a particular representation and those aspects that it neglects.
Richard Brome
Author: Matthew StegglePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719063589
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Richard Brome was the leading comic playwright of 1630s London. Starting his career as a manservant to Ben Jonson, he wrote a string of highly successful comedies which were influential in British theatre long after Brome's own playwriting career was cut short by the closure of the theatres in 1642.This book offers the first full-length chronological account of Brome's life and works, drawing on a wide range of recently rediscovered manuscript sources. Each of the surviving plays is discussed in relation to its social and political context, and its sense of place. A final chapter reviews Brome's enduring stageworthiness into the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the most recent Brome revivals.
Twelfth Night: A Critical Reader
Author: Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472503309
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Twelfth Night is the most mature and fully developed of Shakespeare's comedies and, as well as being one of his most popular plays, represents a crucial moment in the development of his art. Assembled by leading scholars, this guide provides a comprehensive survey of major issues in the contemporary study of the play. Throughout the book chapters explore such issues as the play's critical reception from John Manningham's account of one of its first performances to major current comentators like Stephen Greenblatt; the performance history of the play, from Shakespeare's day to the present and key themes in current scholarship, from issues of gender and sexuality to the study of comedy and song. Twelfth Night: A Critical Guide also includes a complete guide to resources available on the play - including critical editions, online resources and an annotated bibliography - and how they might be used to aid both the teaching and study of Shakespeare's enduring comedy.