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Introduction to English Renaissance comedy provides a comprehensive introduction to Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline comedy, covering both public and private theatres, emphasising the eclectic, experimental nature of this comedy: its departures from the mainstream New Comedy tradition, its searching, witty analysis of social and personal relations in court, city and country.
This book makes a close analysis of some of the richest comedies of the period, making unexpected connections between them: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest, Lyly's Endymion, Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, Marston's The Malcontent, Middleton's Michaelmas Term, Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, Shirley's The Lady of Pleasure and Brome's A Jovial Crew. Through these plays the reader is given a comprehensive picture of English comedy in one of its most creative periods.
Introduction
1. Lyly, Endymion
2. Greene, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
3. Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
4. Marston, The Malcontent
5. Middleton, Michaelmas Term
6. Shakespeare, The Tempest
7. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair
8. Caroline comedy: Shirley, the Lady of Pleasure and Brome, A Jovial Crew.
Conclusion