An Humorous Day's Mirth by Charles Edelman
George Chapman is known today as a translator of Homer and as the author of dark tragedies such as Bussy D'Ambois. An Humorous Day's Mirth, written in 1597, was one of the most popular plays of the Elizabethan era. Not only was Chapman's play the Rose Theatre's greatest box-office success of that year, but it also presented an entirely new type of comedy, one that has profoundly influenced comic writing up to the present day. This play is the English theatre's first 'comedy of humours', in which the attitudes, behaviour, and social pretensions of contemporary men and women are satirised. Charles Edelman's is the first fully annotated, modern spelling edition of this long-neglected play. In his extensive introduction and commentary, Edelman discusses the intellectual, philosophical and theatrical background to Chapman's comedy, and shows that An Humorous Day's Mirth would delight the readers and audiences of today as much as it did those in 1597.-
Doctor Faustus, A- and B- Texts 1604
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The Roaring Girl
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Antonio and Mellida
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The Knight of the Burning Pestle
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Edward the Second
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Sejanus, His Fall
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The Maid's Tragedy
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The Shoemaker's Holiday
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A Game at Chess
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Love's Cure, or The Martial Maid
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Volpone, or The Fox
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Love's Victory
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Galatea and Midas
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Endymion
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Eastward Ho
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Love's Sacrifice
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Sir Thomas More
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Mother Bombie
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A Trick to Catch the Old One
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Philaster: or Love Lies A-Bleeding
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Poetaster
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Every Man in His Humour
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The Woman in the Moon
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Tamburlaine the Great
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David and Bathsheba
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The Staple of News
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The Devil is an Ass
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Bussy D'Ambois
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The Parnassus Plays
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The Queen, or the Excellency of Her Sex
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Tis Pity She's a Whore
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Dick of Devonshire
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The Troublesome Reign of John, King of England
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The First and Second Parts of King Edward Iv
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The Magnetic Lady
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All Fools
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Thierry and Theodoret
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Thomas of Woodstock
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Dido, Queen of Carthage
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The Lady's Trial
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The False One
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The Massacre at Paris
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Love's Metamorphosis
Charles Edelman is an Honorary Senior Fellow at Edith Cowan University
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780719075742 |
| ISBN 10 | 0719075742 |
| Title | An Humorous Day's Mirth |
| Author | Charles Edelman |
| Series | The Revels Plays |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2010-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |