1st Edition
Parsing the City Jonson, Middleton, Dekker, and City Comedy's London as Language
By Heather Easterling
Copyright 2006
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
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Parsing the City updates our understanding of Jacobean city comedy’s discursive role in its London society. Working with three major plays by Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, this book develops an updated reading of Jacobean city comedy as a dramatic subgenre whose engagement with early modern London was centrally linguistic and semiotic-- its plays staging and... Read more
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One: "Noise of a Thousand Sounds": Anxious Plenty, Language, and London
Chapter Two: Epicoene, Women, and the Language of the City
Chapter Three: Double-Talk and the Canting Cure: The Roaring Girl’s
Moll Cutpurse as the City
Chapter Four: Fair Game: Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair, Language, and Play
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Easterling, Heather
