224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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The comic grotesque is a powerful element in a great deal of Elizabethan literature, but one which has attracted scant critical attention. In this study, first published in 1980, Neil Rhodes examines the nature of the grotesque in late sixteenth-century culture, and shows the part it played in the development of new styles of comic prose and drama in Elizabethan England. In defining ‘grotesque’,... Read more
Preface; Acknowledgements; Elizabethan comic prose and drama: a chronology; Part I: 1. Literary grotesque: a sixteenth-century background 2. The low style in Elizabethan comic prose 3. Comedy and violence in Elizabethan pamphlet literature 4. Nashe and the beginning of satirical journalism 5. The grotesque and satirical comedy; Part II 6. Shakespearean grotesque: the Falstaff plays 7. Jonsonian grotesque: Every Man Out of his Humour and Bartholomew Fair; Conclusion; Notes; Select bibliography; Index
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Rhodes, Neil
