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Item Details
| Title:
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MICHAELMAS TERM
THOMAS MIDDLETON |
| By: |
Gail Paster (Editor), Hazel Bell |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£40.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0719015529 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780719015526 |
| Publisher: |
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
8 December, 2000 |
| Series: |
The Revels Plays |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Description: |
Written for the boy players of St Paul's Cathedral, this play offers a cynical assessment of the social displacements, alienation and loss of cultural memory characteristic of life in the early modern London. This edition features explanations to clarify bawdy exchanges and complex stage action. |
| Synopsis: |
Written for the boy players of St Paul's Cathedral, sometime before 1607, this play is set in a vividly detailed, realistic urban milieu at the start of London's social season. It comes alive through the central contest between Ephestian Quomodo, an ambitious, land-hungry city merchant, and Richard Easy, a naive landowning gallant just arrived in the city. Easy is soon deep in debt and his struggle to recoup his debts and reclaim his land from Quomodo takes place against a sharply drawn set of London types, Quomodo's socially and sexually ambitious wife and daughter, the Scottish upstart Andrew Lethe, and his mistress the Country Wench, eager to exchange her virginity for an elegant new wardrobe. In its witty, bawdy dialogue and complex gulling action, the play offers an unusually cynical assessment of the social and familial displacements, the alienation and loss of cultural memory, characteristic of life in the great metropolis of early modern London. In this sense, the play is an early satiric diagnosis of urban modernity.This edition, newly collated and edited, features complete explanations of the play's often bawdy exchanges and the complex stage action of the gulling and secondary plots. |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations, black & white |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Manchester University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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