Early British comedy : a critical rethinking /
"This book is a collection of sixteen British comedies dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The works are chosen in chronological order and include a multitude of different versions of comedy, including broad humour, stark humour, heavy social satire, urban and class comedy of w...
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Roister Doister, 1567
- Everyman in his Humor, 1598
- Volpone, 1605
- The Knight of the Burning Pestle, 1607
- Epicoene or The Silent Woman, 1609
- A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, 1613
- Bartholomew Fair, 1614
- A New Way to Pay Old Debts, 1625
- A Maidenhead Well Lost, 1634
- The Alchemist, 1640
- The Country Wife, 1675
- The Man of Mode, 1676
- The Rover, 1677
- Love for Love, 1695
- The Way of the World, 1700
- The Recruiting Officer, 1706.