This volume offers excellent value by bringing together four of the most popular, most frequently studied and performed, city comedies by Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson and their contemporaries. Each of the plays features tradesmen - a...
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This volume offers excellent value by bringing together four of the most popular, most frequently studied and performed, city comedies by Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson and their contemporaries. Each of the plays features tradesmen - a shoemaker, goldsmith, merchant, shop-keepers - and depicts bustling city life. Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Note on the Texts -- Select Bibliography -- A Chronology of Jacobean City Comedies -- THE SHOEMAKER'S HOLIDAY -- EASTWARD HO -- EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOUR -- THE ROARING GIRL -- Explanatory Notes -- Glossary.
