Four Renaissance Comedies
Robert Shaughnessy, George Peele, Ben Jonson, Philip Massinger, Thomas Dekker
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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Godina:
2004
Jezik:
english
Strane:
368
ISBN 10:
1403938865
ISBN 13:
9781403938862
Fajl:
PDF, 655 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2004