Richard Brome
Richard Brome

Author: Matthew Steggle

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780719063589

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Richard Brome was the leading comic playwright of 1630s London. Starting his career as a manservant to Ben Jonson, he wrote a string of highly successful comedies which were influential in British theatre long after Brome's own playwriting career was cut short by the closure of the theatres in 1642.This book offers the first full-length chronological account of Brome's life and works, drawing on a wide range of recently rediscovered manuscript sources. Each of the surviving plays is discussed in relation to its social and political context, and its sense of place. A final chapter reviews Brome's enduring stageworthiness into the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the most recent Brome revivals.

Thunder at a Playhouse
Thunder at a Playhouse

Author: Peter Kanelos

Publisher: Susquehanna University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1575911264

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critical issues of early modern performance in fresh and vital ways. --

Early Modern Witches
Early Modern Witches

Author: Marion Gibson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-10-07

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1134607636

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This collection of pamphlets describes fifteen English witchcraft cases in detail, vividly recreating events to give the reader the illusion of actually being present at witchcraft accusations, trials and hangings. But how much are we victims of literary manipulation by these texts? The pamphlets are presented in annotated format, to allow the reader to decide. Some of the texts appear in print for the first time in three centuries, whilst others are newly edited to give a clearer picture of sources.