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Parsing the City
Jonson, Middleton, Dekker, and City Comedy's London as Language
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Series
Author: Easterling Heather
Language: EnglishKeywords
comedy; roaring; girl; bartholomew; fair; jacobean; prose; chaste; maid; mary; Young Men; City Comedy; Roaring Girl; Jacobean City Comedy; English Grammar; Bartholomew Fair; Moll Cutpurse; La Foole; Chaste Maid; Act Iii; Mistress Otter; Language Consciousness; Sir Amorous La Foole; Greene’s Groat’s Worth; Hic Mulier; Pennyboy Junior; Lady Pecunia; Jonson’s Late Play; Jonson’s Staging; Sick Man’s Salve; Lady Collegiates; Sir Alexander Wengrave; Existential Creation; Brian Gibbons; Early Modern
Publication date: 09-2014
160 p. · 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
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Parsing the City updates our understanding of Jacobean city comedy?s discursive role in its London society. Working with three major plays by Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, this book develops an updated reading of Jacobean city comedy as a dramatic subgenre whose engagement with early modern London was centrally linguistic and semiotic-- its plays staging and interrogating the city as a series of languages and language problems.
Acknowledgments. Preface. Introduction 1. 'Noise of a Thousand Sounds': Anxious Plenty, Language, and London 2. Epicoene, Women, and the Language of the City 3. Double-Talk and the Canting Cure: The Roaring Girl’s Moll Cutpurse as the City 4. Fair Game: Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair, Language, and Play Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography. Index