Eastward ho!
By: Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston
Contributors: Chapman, George, 1559?-1634, author; Marston, John, 1575?-1634, author; Neill, Michael, 1942- editor
Edition: [New edition] / edited by Michael Neill.
Series: New mermaids; New mermaids
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Description: A collaboration between Jonson, Chapman and Marston, 'Eastward Ho!' is a masterpiece of city comedy. Unique among the 'coterie' city comedies written for boy players, 'Eastward Ho!' gives all classes a full satiric treatment simultaneously didactic, ironic, and triumphantly comic. 'Eastward Ho!' was performed at the Blackfriars playhouse in 1605. The play may well have been provoked by Dekker and Webster's 'Westward Ho!', produced by Paul's Boys in 1604; 'Eastward Ho!' parodies the earlier play's form.
Notes: Previously issued in print: London : Ernest Benn, 1973.