num_pages: 480
description: This excellent volume brings together four of the most popular, most frequently studied and performed comedies that depict city life, by Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson and their contemporaries. Included are The Roaring Girl , The Shoemaker's Holiday , Eastward Ho! , and Every Man inHis Humour . The text is freshly edited using modern spelling. A critical introduction, a wide-ranging annotation, and an informative bibliography illuminate the plays' cultural contexts and theatrical potential for reader and performer alike.
language: English
title: The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies [The Shoemaker's Holiday, Every Man In His Humour, Eastward Ho!]
titlecomplete: The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies [The Shoemaker's Holiday, Every Man In His Humour, Eastward Ho!] (Oxford English Drama)
genres: 17th Century, Theatre, Drama, Plays, Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 129
publisher: Oxford University Press