Elizabethan grotesque / Neil Rhodes
1980, 1st edition. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #426182
ISBN: 0710005997
Physical description; 207 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Elizabethan comic prose and drama: a chronology; Part I; 1 Literary grotesque: a sixteenth-century background; 2 The low style in Elizabethan comic prose; 1 The low style and the grotesque; 2 Aretino and Nashe; 3 Comedy and violence in Elizabethan pamphlet literature; 4 Nashe and the beginning of satirical journalism; 1 Preaching and satire; 2 The school of Nashe; 5 The grotesque and satirical comedy; 1 Satire and the theatres; 2 Student drama. Dekker Middleton; Part II; 6 Shakespearean grotesque: the Falstaff plays; 1 Nashe and Shakespeare; 2 The drama of the body: Henry IV, part one; 3 The body purged: Henry IV, part two; 4 The death of Falstaff; 7 Jonsonian grotesque: Every Man Out of his Humour and Bartholomew Fair; 1 Lenten stuff; 2 The fatness of the fair; Conclusion; Notes; Select bibliography; Index. Subjects; 1500-1700. English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism. Grotesque in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance. LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama. English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism.
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