Four Renaissance Comedies: The Old Wives Tale, the Shoemakers Holiday, the Alchemist, a New Way to Pay Old Debts - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333973666 ISBN 13: 9780333973660

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

This anthology of four Elizabethan and Jacobean comedies (George Peele's The Old Wives Tale, Ben Jonson's The Alchemist, Philip Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts, and Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday) offers fully modernized and annotated texts and demonstrates the range and variety of English Renaissance comedy. The general introduction surveys the theory and practice of early modern comedy in its time and ours, and each play is prefaced by a brief introduction addressing issues of authorship, theatrical provenance and subsequent performance history.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert Shaughnessy is a Professor of Theatre at the University of Surrey Roehampton.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0333973666
• ISBN 13: 9780333973660
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 344
• Herausgeber: Shaughnessy Robert
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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