عنوان

The places of wit in early modern English comedy

(Number (ISBN

9781107003088 (hardback)

Number

41222

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

eng

Title Proper

The places of wit in early modern English comedy

First Statement of Responsibility

/ Adam Zucker

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge ;New York

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

: Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

, 2011, ├2011.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiii, 255 pages

Other Physical Details

: illustrations

Dimensions

; 24 cm

Text of Note

Language: انگلیسی

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Print

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-246) and index.

Text of Note

"What is wit made out of in the comedies of Shakespeare, Jonson, Shirley and their contemporaries? What does it hide? What does it reveal? This book addresses these questions by turning to the relationship between comic form and local history. Explorations of familiar sites, including Windsor Forest, Smithfield, Covent Garden and Hyde Park, are matched with close readings of drama that focus on overlays between theatrical, spatial, narrative and social conventions. Dramatic comedy's definitive interest in cultural competency and incompetence, and wit and witlessness, is revealed through discussions of commerce, gambling, royal forests and new or newly public spaces in and around early modern London. Along with Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor and Ben Jonson's Epicene and Bartholomew Fair, special emphasis is placed on the neglected town comedies of the 1630s - the forerunners of the Restoration comedy of manners and satirical realism of our own day"--Provided by publisher. Machine generated contents note: Preface; Introduction; 1. Shakespeare's green materials: Windsor Forest and The Merry Wives of Windsor; 2. Ben Jonson's gallant London; 3. Covent Garden: town culture and the location of wit; 4. Another green world: or, how to use Hyde Park; Epilogue: the game of culture; Works cited.

Entry Element

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism

Entry Element

English drama (Comedy)--History and criticism

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Humor in literature

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Space in literature

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Public spaces in literature

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Setting (Literature)

Entry Element

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh--bisacsh

Number

Zucker, Adam, 1972

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