Jacobean City Comedy
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Jacobean City Comedy

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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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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
ISBN
9781351982290
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Theatre

Index

Alchemist, The, 1, 5, 14, 18, 59, 84, 130-8, 139, 142, 154, 158
Alleyn, Edward, 11
All's Well That Ends Well, 31
Antonia and Mellida, 64-7
Antonio 's Revenge, 65
Arcadia, 11, 112
Aristophanes, 55
Armin, Robert, 116
Arturo Ui, 8
Ashton, R., 34-5
Awdelay, John, 13, 161-5, 167
Bacon, Sir Francis, 19-20, 35, 37-9, 45
Bale, John, Bishop of Ossory, 4
Barry, 113-16
Bate's case, 35-6
Bartholomew Fair, 11-12, 58, 76, 117, 139-52, 156
Beaulieu, 40
Beggar's Opera, The, 159
Bindoff, S. T., 26-7, 28
Black Book's Messenger, 165
Blackfriars theatre, 1, 10, 11, 13-14, 34, 58, 59, 64, 69, 75
Blake, William, 160
Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, 113
Bodin, Jean, 21
boy actors, 1, 6, 11, 13-15, 58, 64, 67
Brandon, Gregory, 41
Btecht, Bertolt, 3, 7-8, 62
Bridesbead Revisited, 3 3
Brome, R.. 159
Buckingham, Duke of, 32
Burghley, Lord, 18, 31, 38
Burlase, 5
Canterbury, Archbishop of, 6
Capital and Finance in the Age of the Renaissance, 20, 28-9
Case Is Altered, The, 55
Caveat for Common Cursetors, 163-4
Chapman, George, 8-11, 48-50, 119-20
Charles I, 16, 24, 33-7, 40-1, 160
Charles II, 37
Chaste Maid in Cheap side, A, 89, 122, 127-30
Church...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Original Title
  6. Original Copyright
  7. Contents
  8. Dedication
  9. Preface to the second edition
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. I City comedy as a genre
  12. II A fountain stirr'd: city comedy in relation to the social and economic background
  13. III The approaching equinox: politics and city comedy
  14. IV To strip the ragged follies of the time
  15. V Marston and the Court: folly and corruption
  16. VI Money makes the world go around: the city satirized
  17. VII Conventional plays 1604-7
  18. VIII Middleton and Jonson
  19. IX Bartholomew Fair and The Devil Is an Ass: city comedy at the zenith
  20. Appendix The Coney-Catching pamphlet
  21. Notes
  22. Select bibliography
  23. Index