Eastward Ho!

<p>This collaborative masterpiece of hilarious city comedy was performed<br>by the Children of the Revels at the Blackfriars playhouse in 1605. The<br>story is of an allegorical simplicity that lends itself to satire of<br>civic mores and traditions as well as to parody of the sentimental <br>idealising London comedy presented at the amphitheatres in the suburbs: <br>Goldsmith Touchstone an upright London citizen has one modest and one<br>ambitious daughter one righteous and one disreputable apprentice;<br>virtue is rewarded ruthlessness comes to grief - and receives a<br>drenching in the muddy Thames. The introduction to this edition<br>discusses various methods of establishing authorship and highlights the<br>irony of the collaborators' comic vision of contemporary London life.</p>