A Jovial Crew

Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:A Jovial CrewISBN13:9781904271772ISBN10:1904271774Author:Brome, Richard (Author), Stern, Tiffany (Editor), McMullan, Gordon (Editor)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 Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:Arden ShakespearePublication Date:2014-03-27Weight:0.75 lbsDimensions:0.6'' H x 7.7'' L x 5.1'' WNumber of Pages:328Language:English

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