Puritanism and theatre : Thomas Middleton and opposition drama under the early Stuarts / Margot Heinemann
1980, Advance Review Copy. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #447159
ISBN: 0521226023
Physical description; ix, 300 pages. Contents; Time and place -- Puritanism, censorship and opposition to the theatre -- Middleton as satirical journalist -- Early satirical comedies -- How anti-Puritan are Middleton's city comedies? -- Money and morals in Middleton's city comedies -- Middle years: tragi-comedy and moral comedy -- City employments -- Hard times and Hengist, king of Kent -- Political satire: A game at chess -- City tragedy -- Drama and opposition, 1619-1640 -- From popular drama to Leveller style: a postscript. Subjects; English. Puritan movements in literature.
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