This is the first book to survey comprehensively the field of Elizabethan and Jacobean citizen comedy Thisbook follows recurring themes and motifs, through a variety of plays by many authors from the moralizing comedies of the boys' companies.
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- English
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Citizen Comedy in the Age of Shakespeare
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Topic
LiteraturaSubtopic
Arte dramático shakespearianoTable of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Citizen hero and citizen villain
- 3. The prodigal
- 4. The comedy of intrigue: money and land
- 5. Who wears the breeches?
- 6. Chaste maids and w hares
- 7. The comedy of intrigue: adultery
- 8. Conclusion
- Selected bibliography
- Index
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