Professional playwrights : Massinger, Ford, Shirley & Brome / Ira Clark.

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 --

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