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A Jovial Crew (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781408130018)
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xA Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, is a comedy about four noble lovers who join the beggar community for a pastoral life of dance and song. Or is it? Whilst maintaining its unremitting good humour, A Jovial Crew shows that the literary depiction of beggar life, and real beggar life, are profoundly different. Daily aspects of life in the beggar world - poverty, dirt, licentiousness - come as a surprise to the well-born, who are ultimately led to question their own values.
The last production mounted before theatres were closed for the English Civil War, A Jovial Crew's exploration of class, commonwealth, kinship and kingship shows an intense engagement with contemporary politics. This edition, with dedicated sections on music and language in the play, argues that A Jovial Crew also offers a nostalgic farewell to English theatre. It explores Brome's attitude to performance and print, and follows A Jovial Crew from its first, Caroline staging, to its later manifestations as a Restoration comedy, an eighteenth-century opera, and a twentieth-century proto-Marxist tragicomedy.Author: Richard Brome
ISBN-10: 1408130017
ISBN-13: 9781408130018
Publisher: Arden Shakespeare
Language: English
Published: 03/27/2014
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.90d
By Richard Brome
xRichard Brome (c.1590-1653) was an English dramatist of the Caroline era who wrote for all the major acting companies and theatres. His career as a playwright was put on hold during one of the longest periods of theatre closure. When theatres reopened during the Restoration, a handful of Brome's plays were performed and republished, and the most successful of these was A Jovial Crew.
Tiffany Stern is Professor of Early Modern Drama and Fellow of University College at the University of Oxford, UK.
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