A Jovial Crew PDF
by Brome Richard Brome
Edited by Stern Tiffany Stern
Part of the Arden Early Modern Drama series
Description
A 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.
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- Pages:328 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publication Date:27/02/2014
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- ISBN:9781408140123
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:328 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publication Date:27/02/2014
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- ISBN:9781408140123
