Plotting Early Modern London
Subtitle: New Essays on Jacobean City Comedy (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama)
Contributors: Dieter Mehl (Editor); Angela Stock (Editor); Anne-Julia Zwierlein (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: August 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780754640974
Subjects: Plays & playwrights: 16th to 18th centuries; Plays / Drama; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; City and town life in literature; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; General; 17th century; English drama; English drama (Comedy); History and criticism; London (England)
First sentence: This is Jacobean comedy at its documentary best: a salty, vivid report on the eternal clash between the puritan ethic and spendthrift snobbery.