Richard Brome by Matthew Steggle
Richard Brome was the leading comic playwright of 1630s London. Starting his career as a manservant to Ben Jonson, he wrote a string of highly successful comedies which were influential in British theatre long after Brome's own playwriting career was cut short by the closure of the theatres in 1642. This book offers the first full-length chronological account of Brome's life and works, drawing on a wide range of recently rediscovered manuscript sources. It traces the early hostility to Brome from those who wrote him off as a mere servant; his continuing struggles with plague closures, contract disputes and theatrical takeover bids; and his literary relationships with Jonson, Shakespeare and others. Each of the surviving plays is discussed in relation to its social and political context, and its sense of place. A final chapter reviews Brome's enduring stageworthiness into the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the most recent Brome revivals.-
Three Renaissance Travel Plays
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Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and His England John Lyly
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Three seventeenth-century plays on women and performance
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Sejanus
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Three Jacobean Witchcraft Plays
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Drama of the English Republic, 1649–1660
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Shakespeare and authorial networks in early modern drama
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Massacres in Early Modern Drama
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Doing Kyd
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Five Elizabethan Progress Entertainments
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Three Romances of Eastern Conquest
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John Lyly and Early Modern Authorship
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Three Renaissance Usury Plays
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The works of Richard Edwards
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Beyond The Spanish Tragedy
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Three sixteenth-century dietaries
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Marlowe and the Popular Tradition
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Thomas Nashe and Literary Performance
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John Fletcher's Rome
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Documents of the Rose Playhouse (Revised EDN)
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The Stukeley Plays
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Doctor Faustus
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Sound Effects
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Playhouse Wills
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Bussy d'Ambois
Matthew Steggle is Lecturer in English at Sheffield Hallam University
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| ISBN 13 | 9780719063589 |
| ISBN 10 | 0719063582 |
| Title | Richard Brome |
| Author | Matthew Steggle |
| Series | Revels Plays Companion Library |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2004-10-28 |
| Number of pages | 232 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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