The Growth and Structure of Elizabethan Comedy
The Growth and Structure of Elizabethan Comedy
Volume 2:
M. C. Bradbrook
July 1979
2
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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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July 1979Paperback
9780521295260
274 pages
216 × 140 × 16 mm
0.35kg
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.
