Rick Bowers

Radical Comedy in Early Modern England

Contexts, Cultures, Performances

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Identifying a pattern of social defiance, this book explores the radical nature of early modern English comedy and uses comedy as a means to observe changes in human behavior common to the Renaissance. Bowers demonstrates how the satirical comedic actions found within Dekker's pamphlets, Harington's discourse, and the dramas of Marston, Middleton, and Jonson are all driven by energetic comic elements to criticize authority and implement social change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9780754663805
• ISBN-10: 0754663809
• Artikelnr.: 44973410

Autorenporträt

Rick Bowers is a Professor of English in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta in Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Comic Performance; Chapter 2 Enter the Comic Hero:
The Performance of Mak in the Second Shepherds' Play; Chapter 3 Wrestling
with Comic Villainy: Barabas and other "Heels" in The Jew of Malta; Chapter
4 Grinning and Bearing it: A Plague of Storytelling in The Wonderfull Yeare
(1603); Chapter 5 Humor in High (and low) Places: Toilet Tales and The
Metamorphosis of Ajax; Chapter 6 Marston's Absurd Theater: The Antonio
Plays; Chapter 7 Sex, Lies, Carnival, and Class: A Chaste Maid in
Cheapside; Chapter 8 "Of What Bigness? / Huge": Ben Jonson's Supersized
Comedy;