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020			_a9781107003088 (hardback)
040			_aDLC _beng _cDLC _erda _dDLC _dBD-DhEU
082	0	0	_a822.05230903 _223 _bZUP 2011
100	1		_aZucker, Adam, _d1972-
245	1	4	_aThe places of wit in early modern English comedy / _cAdam Zucker.
260			_aCambridge ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2011, ©2011.
300			_axiii, 255 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 229-246) and index.
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: 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.
520			_a"What is wit made out of in the comedies of Shakespeare, Jonson, Shirley and their contemporaries? What does it hide? What does it reveal? This book addresses these questions by turning to the relationship between comic form and local history. Explorations of familiar sites, including Windsor Forest, Smithfield, Covent Garden and Hyde Park, are matched with close readings of drama that focus on overlays between theatrical, spatial, narrative and social conventions. Dramatic comedy's definitive interest in cultural competency and incompetence, and wit and witlessness, is revealed through discussions of commerce, gambling, royal forests and new or newly public spaces in and around early modern London. Along with Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor and Ben Jonson's Epicene and Bartholomew Fair, special emphasis is placed on the neglected town comedies of the 1630s - the forerunners of the Restoration comedy of manners and satirical realism of our own day"--
590			_aAH
650		0	_aEnglish drama _yEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aEnglish drama (Comedy) _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aHumor in literature.
650		0	_aSpace in literature.
650		0	_aPublic spaces in literature.
650		0	_aSetting (Literature)
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh _2bisacsh.
856	4	2	_3Cover image _uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/03088/cover/9781107003088.jpg
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1102/2010049735-b.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1102/2010049735-d.html
856	4	1	_3Table of contents only _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1102/2010049735-t.html
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