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Jacobean City Comedy
About this book
The first decade of the Jacobean age witnessed a sudden profusion of comedies satirizing city life; among these were comedies by Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton, as well as the bulk of the repertory of the newly-established children's companies at Blackfriars and Paul's. The playwrights self-consciously forged a new genre which attracted London audiences with its images of folly and vice in Court and City, and hack-writing dramatists were prompt to cash in on a new theatrical fashion.
This study, first published in 1980, examines ways in which the Jacobean city comedy reflect on the self-consciousness of audiences and the concern of the dramatists with Jacobean society. This title will be of interest of students of Renaissance Drama, English Literature and Performance.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Original Title
- Original Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface to the second edition
- Acknowledgements
- I City comedy as a genre
- II A fountain stirr'd: city comedy in relation to the social and economic background
- III The approaching equinox: politics and city comedy
- IV To strip the ragged follies of the time
- V Marston and the Court: folly and corruption
- VI Money makes the world go around: the city satirized
- VII Conventional plays 1604-7
- VIII Middleton and Jonson
- IX Bartholomew Fair and The Devil Is an Ass: city comedy at the zenith
- Appendix The Coney-Catching pamphlet
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index