Parsing the city
Subtitle: Jonson, Middleton, Dekker, and city comedy's London as language
By: Heather C. Easterling
Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780415979504
Subjects: English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism; English drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism; Language and languages in literature; Sociolinguistics in literature; Urban dialects -- England -- London; City and town life in literature; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century; London (England) -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-190) and index
Table of contents: title: Noise of a thousand sounds : anxious plenty, language, and London; title: Epicoene, women, and the language of the city; title: Double-talk and the canting cure : The roaring girl's moll cutpurse as the city; title: Fair game : Jonson's Bartholomew fair, language, and play