عنوان

The places of wit in early modern English comedy

شابک

9781107003088 (hardback)

شماره

41222

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

eng

عنوان اصلي

The places of wit in early modern English comedy

نام نخستين پديدآور

/ Adam Zucker

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Cambridge ;New York

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

: Cambridge University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

, 2011, ├2011.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xiii, 255 pages

ساير جزييات

: illustrations

ابعاد

; 24 cm

متن يادداشت

Language: انگلیسی

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Print

متن يادداشت

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

متن يادداشت

"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.

عنصر شناسه ای

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

عنصر شناسه ای

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)

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

شماره

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Zucker, Adam, 1972

وضعیت فهرست نویسی

old catalog