Professional playwrights : Massinger, Ford, Shirley & Brome /
Clark, Ira.
Professional playwrights : Massinger, Ford, Shirley & Brome / Ira Clark. - Lexington, KY : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)1992. - 1 online resource (241 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Caroline Professionals; The Profession; A Perspective on the Professionals; A Sociopolitical Context; A Social and Family Context; Socialization; 2 Massinger's Tragicomedy of Reformation; The Disaffections of Massinger's Privileged Patrons; Social and Political Accommodation; The Art of Redemptive Conversion; Reflection and Reciprocity in THE PICTURE; 3 Ford's Tragedy of Ritual Suffering; The Gentility of John Ford; Political and Social Resignation; Ceremonial Style; Ritual Roles in THE BROKEN HEART. 4 Shirley's Social Comedy of Adaptation to DegreeShirley's Reverence for Degree; Degree's Prerogatives, Abuses, and Standards; The Clean Wit of Playful Conformity; Adapting Roles in HYDE PARK; 5 Brome's Comedy of Types and Inversions; The Revisionary Potential of Brome's Backgrounds; Political and Social Questioning; Satiric Parodies and Inversions; Generating Experimental Reform in THE ANTIPODES; Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.
The most neglected of the English Renaissance playwrights are the major Carolines --
9780813162416
Electronic Books.
PR671 / .P764 1992
Professional playwrights : Massinger, Ford, Shirley & Brome / Ira Clark. - Lexington, KY : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)1992. - 1 online resource (241 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Caroline Professionals; The Profession; A Perspective on the Professionals; A Sociopolitical Context; A Social and Family Context; Socialization; 2 Massinger's Tragicomedy of Reformation; The Disaffections of Massinger's Privileged Patrons; Social and Political Accommodation; The Art of Redemptive Conversion; Reflection and Reciprocity in THE PICTURE; 3 Ford's Tragedy of Ritual Suffering; The Gentility of John Ford; Political and Social Resignation; Ceremonial Style; Ritual Roles in THE BROKEN HEART. 4 Shirley's Social Comedy of Adaptation to DegreeShirley's Reverence for Degree; Degree's Prerogatives, Abuses, and Standards; The Clean Wit of Playful Conformity; Adapting Roles in HYDE PARK; 5 Brome's Comedy of Types and Inversions; The Revisionary Potential of Brome's Backgrounds; Political and Social Questioning; Satiric Parodies and Inversions; Generating Experimental Reform in THE ANTIPODES; Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.
The most neglected of the English Renaissance playwrights are the major Carolines --
9780813162416
Electronic Books.
PR671 / .P764 1992