Introduction to English Renaissance ComedyManchester University Press, 1999 - 186 من الصفحات This guide provides a comprehensive introduction to Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline comedy, covering both public and private theatres, encompassing the eclective, experimental nature of this comedy: its departures from the mainstream New Comedy tradition and its searching, witty analysis of social and personal relations in court, city and country. This book, an analysis of some of the richest comedies of the periods, makes sometimes inexpected connection between them: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest, Lyly's Endymion, Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, Marston's The Malcontent, Middleton's Michaelmas Term, Jonson's Bartholemew Fair, Shirley's The Lady of Pleasure and Brome's A Jovial Crew. Through these plays the reader is given a picture of English comedy in one of its most creative periods. |
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... English intellectual bloodstream both directly , through a study of the plays themselves , and through the mediation of academic interpretation . They also entered England through the Commedia erudita of Renaissance Italy ( learned ...
... English intellectual bloodstream both directly , through a study of the plays themselves , and through the mediation of academic interpretation . They also entered England through the Commedia erudita of Renaissance Italy ( learned ...
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... English comic tradition : Etherege's Harriet Woodvil , Congreve's Angelica and Millimant , Goldsmith's Kate Hardcastle , Austen's Elizabeth Bennet and Emma Woodhouse . Looking at the tradition as a whole , this may be a fair point . But ...
... English comic tradition : Etherege's Harriet Woodvil , Congreve's Angelica and Millimant , Goldsmith's Kate Hardcastle , Austen's Elizabeth Bennet and Emma Woodhouse . Looking at the tradition as a whole , this may be a fair point . But ...
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... English Literary History , LIII , 1986 , points out that the double image of the island as a rich paradise and a place of danger and deprivation parodies the contemporary double image of Virginia ( p . 682 ) . In New Perspectives on the ...
... English Literary History , LIII , 1986 , points out that the double image of the island as a rich paradise and a place of danger and deprivation parodies the contemporary double image of Virginia ( p . 682 ) . In New Perspectives on the ...
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Lyly Endymion | 19 |
Greene Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay | 30 |
Shakespeare A Midsummer Nights Dream | 61 |
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