Four Renaissance Comedies
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.
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Four Renaissance Comedies
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.
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Four Renaissance Comedies

Four Renaissance Comedies

by Robert Shaughnessy
Four Renaissance Comedies

Four Renaissance Comedies

by Robert Shaughnessy

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350316508
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 03/14/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 344
File size: 575 KB

About the Author

ROBERT SHAUGHNESSY is Professor of Theatre at the University of Surrey Roehampton.
ROBERT SHAUGHNESSY is Principal Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Surrey, Roehampton, UK.

Table of Contents

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.
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