The Growth and Structure of Elizabethan Comedy
Volume 2
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- Author: M. C. Bradbrook
- Date Published: July 1979
- availability: Unavailable - out of print November 2013
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521295260
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In this study, first published in 1979, Professor Bradbrook adopts an historic approach to comedy as a social form, showing its beginnings in medieval drama, its development in various settings, the evolution of different 'kinds' or genres, and the Shakesperean synthesis. The critical comedy which emerged at the turn of the sixteenth century is associated with Ben Jonson, and he and Shakespeare are contrasted, whilst such figures round them as Lyly, Peele, Greene and Nashe in Elizabethan times, and Dekker, Heywood, Marston, Middleton, Day, Chapman and Fletcher from the Jacobean period, are related to each other.
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- Date Published: July 1979
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521295260
- length: 274 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.35kg
- availability: Unavailable - out of print November 2013
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I. The Makings of Elizabethan Drama:
1. Introduction
2. Popular drama: the traffique of the stage
3. The learned tradition 1560–80: the language of comedy and the drama of the schools
4. The decorum of the scene
Part II. Nature and Art at Strife:
5. Artificial comedy and popular comedy: Shakespeare's inheritance
Section 1. Character as Plot:
6. Protean shapes: Shakespearean form in comedy
Section 2. Character as Plot:
7. The definition of comedy: Jonsonian form
Part III. The Triumph of Art:
8. Pastime and good company: Dekker and Heywood
9. The anatomy of knavery: Jonson, Marston, Middleton
10. A set of wit well played: Day, Chapman, Fletcher
11. The ghost at the revels and the Golden Age restored: Jonson's masques and Shakespeare's last plays
12. Elizabethan comedy in the theatre of today
Chronological table of plays
Notes
Index.
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