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BL
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1032115
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b786485
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Bowers, Rick.
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| Title & Author
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Radical comedy in early modern England : : contexts, cultures, performances /\ Rick Bowers.
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| Publication Statement
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Aldershot, England ;Burlington, VT :: Ashgate,, ©2008.
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| Series Statement
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Studies in performance and early modern drama
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1 online resource (122 pages) :: illustrations.
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| ISBN
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0754663809
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: 0754690075
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: 9780754663805
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: 9780754690078
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-118) and index.
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| Contents
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Figures; 1 Introduction: Comic Performance; 2 Enter the Comic Hero: The Performance of Mak in the Second Shepherds' Play; 3 Wrestling with Comic Villainy: Barabas and other "Heels" in The Jew of Malta; 4 Grinning and Bearing it: A Plague of Storytelling in The Wonderfull Yeare (1603); 5 Humor in High (and low) Places: Toilet Tales and The Metamorphosis of Ajax; 6 Marston's Absurd Theater: The Antonio Plays; 7 Sex, Lies, Carnival, and Class: A Chaste Maid in Cheapside; 8 "Of What Bigness? / Huge": Ben Jonson's Supersized Comedy; Works Cited; Index.
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| Abstract
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Identifying a pattern of social defiance, this book explores the radical nature of early modern English comedy and uses comedy as a means to observe changes in human behavior common to the Renaissance. Bowers demonstrates how the satirical comedic actions found within Dekker's pamphlets, Harington's discourse, and the dramas of Marston, Middleton, and Jonson are all driven by energetic comic elements to criticize authority and implement social change.
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Comic, The, in literature.
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English drama (Comedy)-- History and criticism.
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English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-- History and criticism.
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Radicalism in literature.
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Satire, English-- History and criticism.
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Theater-- England-- History-- 16th century.
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Theater-- England-- History-- 17th century.
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Comic, The, in literature.
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DRAMA-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English drama (Comedy)
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English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan.
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Radicalism in literature.
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Radikalismus
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Satire, English.
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Theater.
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Theater.
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England
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England.
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| Dewey Classification
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822.009
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| LC Classification
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PR658.C6B68 2008eb
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HI 1252rvk
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HI 1264rvk
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