Introduction to English Renaissance comedy

<p>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. <br><br>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.</p>