A Jovial Crew, Or The Mercy Beggars - 9781904271772
Un libro in lingua di Richard Brome Stern Tiffany (EDT) edito da Bloomsbury Arden, 2014
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A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, is a comedy about four noble lovers who join the beggar community for a pastoral life of dance and song. Or is it? Whilst maintaining its unremitting good humour, A Jovial Crew shows that the literary depiction of beggar life, and real beggar life, are profoundly different. Daily aspects of life in the beggar world – poverty, dirt, licentiousness – come as a surprise to the well-born, who are ultimately led to question their own values.
The last production mounted before theatres were closed for the English Civil War, A Jovial Crew’s exploration of class, commonwealth, kinship and kingship shows an intense engagement with contemporary politics. This edition, with dedicated sections on music and language in the play, argues that A Jovial Crew also offers a nostalgic farewell to English theatre. It explores Brome’s attitude to performance and print, and follows A Jovial Crew from its first, Caroline staging, to its later manifestations as a Restoration comedy, an eighteenth-century opera, and a twentieth-century proto-Marxist tragicomedy.
The last production mounted before theatres were closed for the English Civil War, A Jovial Crew’s exploration of class, commonwealth, kinship and kingship shows an intense engagement with contemporary politics. This edition, with dedicated sections on music and language in the play, argues that A Jovial Crew also offers a nostalgic farewell to English theatre. It explores Brome’s attitude to performance and print, and follows A Jovial Crew from its first, Caroline staging, to its later manifestations as a Restoration comedy, an eighteenth-century opera, and a twentieth-century proto-Marxist tragicomedy.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: A Jovial Crew, Or The Mercy Beggars
- Lingua: English
- Autori : Richard Brome Stern Tiffany (EDT)
- Editore: Bloomsbury Arden
- Collana: Bloomsbury Arden (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 27 Marzo '14
- Genere: Lingua Inglese
- Pagine: 310
- Dimensioni mm: 197 x 128 x 0
- EAN-13: 9781904271772