Author: Herbert Francis Allen
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Languages : en
Pages : 70

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Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Author: Richard Brome
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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Author: Richard Brome
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Author: Richard Brome
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Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Author: Richard Brome
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9781854596031
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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In the Globe Quarto series co-published with Shakespeare's Globe to mark the rediscovery of forgotten plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries.The Antipodes includes a play-within-the-play, also called 'The Antipodes', which is used as psychotherapy for Peregrine Joyless's obsession with travel books, with the aim of recalling him to his marital duties. Brome's audience is also confronted with a picture of the topsy-turviness of the 'world upside down' of London in the 1630s.The play was revived, in an adapted form by Gerald Freedman, at Shakespeare's Globe in 2000.

Author: Clarence Edward Andrews
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Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: Matthew Steggle
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719063589
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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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.

Author: Richard Brome
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408140136
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 221

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A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, is a comedy about four noble lovers who join the beggar community for a pastoral life of dance and song. Or is it? Whilst maintaining its unremitting good humour, A Jovial Crew shows that the literary depiction of beggar life, and real beggar life, are profoundly different. Daily aspects of life in the beggar world – poverty, dirt, licentiousness – come as a surprise to the well-born, who are ultimately led to question their own values. The last production mounted before theatres were closed for the English Civil War, A Jovial Crew's exploration of class, commonwealth, kinship and kingship shows an intense engagement with contemporary politics. This edition, with dedicated sections on music and language in the play, argues that A Jovial Crew also offers a nostalgic farewell to English theatre. It explores Brome's attitude to performance and print, and follows A Jovial Crew from its first, Caroline staging, to its later manifestations as a Restoration comedy, an eighteenth-century opera, and a twentieth-century proto-Marxist tragicomedy.

Author: Richard Hollis Jefferson
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Languages : en
Pages : 408

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