The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies

Author: Thomas Dekker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192658557
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 481

Book Description
Thomas Dekker: The Shoemaker's Holiday George Chapman, Ben Jonson, John Marston: Eastward Ho! Ben Jonson: Every Man In His Humour Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker: The Roaring Girl Oxford English Drama offers plays from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries in selections that make available both rarely printed and canonical works. The texts are freshly edited using modern spelling. Critical introductions, wide-ranging annotation, and informative bibliographies illuminate the plays' cultural contexts and theatrical potential for reader and performer alike. 'The series should reshape the canon in a number of significant areas. A splendid and imaginative project.' Professor Anne Barton, Cambridge University ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies

Author: Thomas Dekker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192828002
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 486

Book Description
The Oxford English Drama series offers plays from the 16th to the early 20th centuries in selections that make available both rarely printed and canonical works. Each text is freshly edited using modern spelling.

The Roaring Girl

Author: Thomas Middleton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719016301
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
Ward was in a New York banking family, brother of Julia Ward Howe, married into the Astor family, was in the Gold Rush, involved in the social life of New York and London, and was an epicure. He was also a very powerful lobbying influence on Congress and an author. His family connections and friends were prominent in many fields.

Producing Early Modern London

Author: Kelly J. Stage
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496201817
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
"Producing Early Modern London analyzes theater's use of city spaces and places, showing how the satirical comedies of the early seventeenth century came to embody the city as the city embodied the plays"--

Every Man in His Humour

Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106

Book Description

Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters

Author: Jennifer Higginbotham
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748655913
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
The first sustained study of girls and girlhood in early modern literature and culture. Jennifer Higginbotham makes a persuasive case for a paradigm shift in our current conceptions of the early modern sex-gender system. She challenges the widespread assumption that the category of the 'girl' played little or no role in the construction of gender in early modern English culture. And she demonstrates that girl characters appeared in a variety of texts, from female infants in Shakespeare's late romances to little children in Tudor interludes to adult 'roaring girls' in city comedies. This monograph provides the first book-length study of the way the literature and drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries constructed the category of the 'girl'.

A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays

Author: Martin Wiggins
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0192829505
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 393

Book Description
This unique edition brings together four plays concerned with 'domestic' themes: Arden of Faversham, Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness and The English Traveller, and Dekker, Rowley and Ford's The Witch of Edmonton. Texts are in modern spelling, accompanied by a critical introduction, wide-ranging annotation and bibliography.

Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England

Author: Daniel Vitkus
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231505284
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
-- Greg Bak, Early Modern Literary Studies

The Roaring Girl

Author: Thomas Middleton
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770485414
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
The titular “Roaring Girl” of Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s comedy is Moll Cutpurse, a fictionalized version of Mary Frith, who attained legendary status in London by flouting gendered dress conventions, illegally performing onstage, and engaging in all manner of transgressive behavior from smoking and swearing to stealing. In the course of The Roaring Girl’s lively and complex plot of seduction and clever ruses, Moll shares her views on gender and sexuality, defends her honor in a duel, and demonstrates her knowledge of London’s criminal underworld. This edition of the play offers an informative introduction, thorough annotation, and a substantial selection of contextual materials from the period.

Five Plays

Author: Thomas Middleton
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140432190
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 468

Book Description
Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was one of the most prolific and fascinating playwrights of the Jacobean era, producing nearly fifty theatrical pieces in a quarter of a century. This collection comprises five of his most powerful plays, from the comedies satirizing city life, A Trick to Catch the Old One, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, to his later tragedies Women Beware Women and The Changeling, in which Middleton reveals a world dominated by the corrupting power of lust and subject to the futility of human pretensions. Also included is The Revenger's Tragedy, originally ascribed to Cyril Tourneur, a Revenge Play infused with sardonic wit and biting irony.