Professional playwrights : Massinger, Ford, Shirley & Brome /

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Author / Creator:	Clark, Ira.
Imprint:	Lexington, KY : The University Press of Kentucky, [1992] ©1992
Description:	1 online resource (241 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Massinger, Philip, -- 1583-1640 -- Criticism and interpretation. Ford, John, -- 1586-approximately 1640 -- Criticism and interpretation. Shirley, James, -- 1596-1666 -- Criticism and interpretation. Brome, Richard, -- -1652 -- Criticism and interpretation. Brome, Richard, -- -1652? Ford, John, -- 1586-approximately 1640. Massinger, Philip, -- 1583-1640. Shirley, James, -- 1596-1666. English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism. English drama. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11241030

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ISBN:	9780813162416 0813162416 0813151678 9780813151670
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	The most neglected of the English Renaissance playwrights are the major Carolines -- Philip Massinger, John Ford, James Shirley, and Richard Brome. Writing in the 1620s and 1630s, always in the shadow of their great precursors, Shakespeare and Jonson, they have often been dubbed mere purveyors of slick, escapist sensationalism who avoided the great issues of their day and turned away from the impending breakdown of English society. Ira Clark's revisionist book shows us these dramatists and their time whole, particularly through analysis of their treatment of sociopolitical issues -- issues tha.
Other form:	Print version: Clark, Ira. Professional Playwrights : Massinger, Ford, Shirley and Brome. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 9780813151670

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