Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgements -- I City comedy as a genre -- II A fountain stirr'd: city comedy in relation to the...
mehr
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgements -- I City comedy as a genre -- II A fountain stirr'd: city comedy in relation to the social and economic background -- III The approaching equinox: politics and city comedy -- IV To strip the ragged follies of the time -- V Marston and the Court: folly and corruption -- VI Money makes the world go around: the city satirized -- VII Conventional plays 1604-7 -- VIII Middleton and Jonson -- IX Bartholomew Fair and The Devil Is an Ass: city comedy at the zenith -- Appendix The Coney-Catching pamphlet -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index
