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Plotting Early Modern London: New Essays on Jacobean City Comedy: Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama

Autor Dieter Mehl Editat de Angela Stock
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 noi 2016
With the publication of Brian Gibbons's Jacobean City Comedy thirty-five years ago, the urban satires by Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton attained their 'official status as a Renaissance subgenre' that was distinct, by its farcical humour and ironic tone, from 'citizen comedy' or 'London drama' more generally. This retrospective genre-building has proved immensely fruitful in the study of early modern English drama; and although city comedies may not yet rival Shakespeare's plays in the amount of editorial work and critical acclaim they receive, both the theatrical contexts and the dramatic complexity of the genre itself, and its interrelations with Shakespearean drama justly command an increasing level of attention. Looking at a broad range of plays written between the 1590s and the 1630s - master-pieces of the genre like Eastward Ho, A Trick to Catch the Old One, The Dutch Courtesan and The Devil is an Ass, blends of romance and satire like The Shoemaker's Holiday and The Knight of the Burning Pestle, and bourgeois oddities in the Shakespearean manner like The London Prodigal - the twelve essays in this volume re-examine city comedy in the light of recently foregrounded historical contexts such as early modern capitalism, urban culture, the Protestant Reformation, and playhouse politics. Further, they explore the interrelations between city comedy and Shakespearean comedy both from the perspective of author rivalry and in terms of modern adaptations: the twenty-first-century concept of 'popular Shakespeare' (above all in the movie sector) seems to realign the comparatively time- and placeless Shakespearean drama with the gritty, noisy and bustling urban scene that has been city comedy's traditional preserve.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138266568
ISBN-10: 1138266566
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Contents: Preface; Introduction: 'Our scene is London...', Angela Stock and Anne-Julia Zwierlein. Part I Bourgeois Domestic Drama: Middletonian families, Alan Brissenden; Doolittle's father(s): Master Merrythought in The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Matthias Bauer. Part II The Culture Of Credit: Crises of credit: monetary and erotic economies in the Jacobean theatre, Richard Waswo; Shipwrecks in the city: commercial risk as romance in Early Modern city comedy, Anne-Julia Zwierlein. Part III Playhouse Politics: Patterns of audience involvement at the Blackfriars Theatre in the early 17th century: some moments in Marston's The Dutch Courtesan, David Crane; 'Within the compass of the city walls': allegiances in plays for and about the city, Andrew Gurr. Part IV Civic Religion: 'Something done in honour of the city': ritual, theatre and satire in Jacobean civic pageantry, Angela Stock; 'Thou art damned for alt'ring thy religion': the double coding of conversion in city comedy, Alizon Brunning. Part V City Comedy And Shakespeare: The London Prodigal as Jacobean city comedy, Dieter Mehl; What city, friends, is this?, Ruth Morse. Part VI Shakespearean City Comedy Today: Rewriting city comedy through time and cultures: The Taming of the Shrew - Padua to London to Padua US, Robyn Bolam; Hamlet in 2000: Michael Almeryda's city comedy, Deborah Cartmell; Bibliography; Index.

Recenzii

'Angela Stock and Anne-Julia Zwierlein, two of the editors, offer an introduction which serves both as an astute summation of the theatrical and cultural significance of Jacobean comedy in London and as a rationale for the division of the twelve essays into symmetrical pairs... Angela Stock connects elite and popular theatrical forms in an illuminating new perspective, one that is admirably documented with historical detail... In thus offering fresh views on controversial issues, the volume editors set a high standard that is manifest throughout the essays in this important collection.' Renaissance Quarterly '... the contributors add substantially to our understanding of city comedy and its contemporary backgrounds, and this volume will be of interest to anyone working on Jacobean drama.' Modern Language Review

Descriere

Looking at a broad range of plays written between the 1590s and the 1630s - satirical master-pieces like Eastward Ho, A Trick to Catch the Old One, The Dutch Courtesan and The Devil is an Ass, blends of romance and satire like The Shoemaker's Holiday and The Knight of the Burning Pestle, and bourgeois oddities like The London Prodigal - this volume re-examines early modern city comedy in the light of recently foregrounded historical contexts such as early modern capitalism, urban culture, the Protestant Reformation, and playhouse politics. Further, it explores the interrelations between city comedy and Shakespearean comedy both from the perspective of author rivalry and in terms of modern adaptations: the twenty-first-century concept of 'popular Shakespeare' (above all in the movie sector) seems to realign the comparatively time- and placeless Shakespearean drama with the gritty, noisy and bustling urban scene that has been city comedy's traditional preserve.