Four Renaissance Comedies

by Robert Shaughnessy

Book Overview

This edition of four Renaissance comedies represents the vitality, range and diversity of the English comic drama of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, reflecting both its capacity for escapist fantasy and its concern with the intrigues of everyday city life. Comprehensive textual notes establish the plays in their originating cultural and theatrical circumstances, as well as explaining obscure references and allusions. A general...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333973658
• ISBN13: 9780333973653
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.7"