Four Renaissance Comedies - Hardcover

Shaughnessy, Robert

 
9780333973653: Four Renaissance Comedies
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0333973658 ISBN 13: 9780333973653
Verlag: Red Globe Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

This edition of four Renaissance comedies represents the vitality, range and diversity of the English comic drama of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, reflecting both its capacity for escapist fantasy and its concern with the intrigues of everyday city life. Comprehensive textual notes establish the plays in their originating cultural and theatrical circumstances, as well as explaining obscure references and allusions. A general introduction provides a helpful overview of early modern comedy in the context of Renaissance comic theory and practice, together with an assessment of its continuing theatrical appeal.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

ROBERT SHAUGHNESSY is Professor of Theatre at the University of Surrey Roehampton.

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This edition of four Renaissance comedies represents the vitality, range and diversity of the English comic drama of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, reflecting both its capacity for escapist fantasy and its concern with the intrigues of everyday city life. Comprehensive textual notes establish the plays in their originating cultural and theatrical circumstances, as well as explaining obscure references and allusions. A general introduction provides a helpful overview of early modern comedy in the context of Renaissance comic theory and practice, together with an assessment of its continuing theatrical appeal.

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Verlag
Red Globe Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0333973658
ISBN 13 
9780333973653
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
344
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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