Eastward Ho!
Eastward Ho!

Author: Ben Jonson

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-06-13

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 140814414X

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This collaborative masterpiece of hilarious city comedy was performed by the Children of the Revels at the Blackfriars playhouse in 1605. The story is of an allegorical simplicity that lends itself to satire of civic mores and traditions as well as to parody of the sentimental, idealising London comedy presented at the amphitheatres in the suburbs: Goldsmith Touchstone, an upright London citizen, has one modest and one ambitious daughter, one righteous and one disreputable apprentice; virtue is rewarded, ruthlessness comes to grief - and receives a drenching in the muddy Thames. The introduction to this edition discusses various methods of establishing authorship and highlights the irony of the collaborators' comic vision of contemporary London life.

The English Empire in America, 1602-1658
The English Empire in America, 1602-1658

Author: L H Roper

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1317313879

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This study situates the colonization of Virginia, the centrepiece of early English overseas settlement activity, in the social and political landscape of the early seventeenth century.

Renaissance Drama 33
Renaissance Drama 33

Author: Patricia Parker

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2005-07-12

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0810121999

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Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theatre, and performance.