Eastward Ho!
Eastward Ho!
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Summary
Play script, including biographical notes, textual details and information about the staging of the play.
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Eastward Ho! by Ben Jonson
This collaborative masterpiece of hilarious city comedy was performed by the Children of the Revels at the Blackfriars playhouse in 1605. The story is of an allegorical simplicity that lends itself to satire of civic mores and traditions as well as to parody of the sentimental, idealising London comedy presented at the amphitheatres in the suburbs: Goldsmith Touchstone, an upright London citizen, has one modest and one ambitious daughter, one righteous and one disreputable apprentice; virtue is rewarded, ruthlessness comes to grief - and receives a drenching in the muddy Thames. The introduction to this edition discusses various methods of establishing authorship and highlights the irony of the collaborators' comic vision of contemporary London life.
Michael Neill is Professor of English, Department of English, University of Auckland, New Zealand, and editor of the Oxford Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780713639834 |
| ISBN 10 | 0713639830 |
| Title | Eastward Ho! |
| Author | Ben Jonson |
| Series | New Mermaids |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 1995-08-25 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |