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1640s Plays (Study Guide): A Jovial Crew, the Court Secret, the Imposture, the Sisters, the Cardinal, the Triumph of Beauty

1640s Plays (Study Guide): A Jovial Crew, the Court Secret, the Imposture, the Sisters, the Cardinal, the Triumph of Beauty


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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: A Jovial Crew, The Court Secret, The Imposture, The Sisters, The Cardinal, The Triumph of Beauty, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses, The Sophy, . Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy written by Richard Brome. First staged in 1641 or 1642 and first published in 1652, it is generally ranked as one of Brome's best plays, and one of the best comedies of the Caroline period; in one critic's view, Brome's The Antipodes and A Jovial Crew "outrank all but the best of Jonson." The play was first published in 1652, in a quarto printed by James Young for the booksellers Edward Dod and Nathaniel Ekins. The volume contains Brome's dedication of the play to Thomas Stanley. The quarto also features prefatory verses composed by James Shirley, John Tatham, and Alexander Brome among others. The play was Brome's most popular work during its own historical era, and was reprinted in 1661 (by bookseller Henry Brome), 1684 (by Joseph Hindmarsh), and 1708 (C. Brome). The title page of the first edition states that the play debuted at the Cockpit Theatre in Drury Lane in 1641. That theatre had recently returned to the management of Brome's friend and colleague William Beeston, after a period under the control of their rival Sir William Davenant. In his dedication to Stanley in the 1652 quarto, Brome states that A Jovial Crew "had the luck to tumble last of all in the epidemical ruin of the scene" - which has been interpreted to mean that the play was the last work acted before the Puritan authorities closed the London theatres on September 2, 1642, at the start of the English Civil War. The play was revived early in the Restoration era, and proved an enduring favourite ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=14414811


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156060889
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 38
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 86 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156060885
  • Publisher Date: 14 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Jovial Crew, the Court Secret, the Imposture, the Sisters, the Cardinal, the Triumph of Beauty
  • Width: 189 mm


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