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Four Renaissance Comedies

By Ben Jonson , Robert Shaughnessy , George Peele , Philip Massinger , Thomas Dekker

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
9780333973653, 9780333973660, 0333973658, 0333973666, 9781403938862
LCC
PR1248 .F68 2003
Open Library ID
OL10559869M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
655 kB (670564 bytes)
Pages
368\343
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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