A Jovial Crew (Hardcover, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	The Arden Shakespeare
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Arden Early Modern Drama
Release date:	2014
First published:	March 2014
Editors:	Tiffany Stern
Authors:	Richard Brome
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	328
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-4081-3001-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General
LSN:	1-4081-3001-7
Barcode:	9781408130018

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