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The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies Thomas Dekker

The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies By Thomas Dekker

The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies by Thomas Dekker


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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.

The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies Summary

The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies by Thomas Dekker

Thomas Dekker: The Shoemaker's Holiday George Chapman, Ben Jonson, John Marston: Eastward Ho! Ben Jonson: Every Man In His Humour Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker: The Roaring Girl Oxford English Drama offers plays from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries in selections that make available both rarely printed and canonical works. The texts are freshly edited using modern spelling. Critical introductions, wide-ranging annotation, and informative bibliographies illuminate the plays' cultural contexts and theatrical potential for reader and performer alike. 'The series should reshape the canon in a number of significant areas. A splendid and imaginative project.' Professor Anne Barton, Cambridge University ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Table of Contents

The Shoemaker's Holiday ; Eastward Ho ; Every Man In His Humour ; The Roaring Girl

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GOR003576901
9780199540105
0199540101
The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies by Thomas Dekker
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
20080612
480
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