Adam Zucker

The Places of Wit in Early Modern English Comedy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An exploration of wit, witlessness and social and comic conventions in the plays of Shakespeare, Jonson and their contemporaries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9781107003088
• ISBN-10: 1107003083
• Artikelnr.: 32558357

Autorenporträt

Adam Zucker is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he teaches courses on early modern drama and poetry.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. Shakespeare's green materials: Windsor Forest and The Merry Wives of Windsor
2. Ben Jonson's gallant London
3. Covent Garden: town culture and the location of wit
4. Another green world: or, how to use Hyde Park
Epilogue: the game of culture
Works cited.