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An Humorous Day´s Mirth: By George Chapman
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Paperback. George Chapman's An Humorous Day's Mirth is one of the Elizabethan theatre's most successful comedies. In his new Revels edition, Charles Edelman presents a play that will delight today's readers and audiences as much as it did those of 1597. Editor(s): Edelman, Charles. Series Editor(s): Findlay, Alison; Ostovich, Dr. Helen. Series: Revels Plays. Num Pages: 200 pages, 1 black & white illustration. BIC Classification: DD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
George Chapman is known today as a translator of Homer and as the author of dark tragedies such as Bussy D'Ambois. An Humorous Day's Mirth was one of the most popular plays of the Elizabethan era. Not only was it the Rose Theatre's greatest box-office success of 1597, it also presented an entirely new type of comedy, one that has profoundly influenced comic writing up to the present day. This play is the English theatre's first 'comedy of humours', in which the attitudes, behaviour, and social pretensions of contemporary men and women are satirised. Charles ... Read more
George Chapman is known today as a translator of Homer and as the author of dark tragedies such as Bussy D'Ambois. An Humorous Day's Mirth was one of the most popular plays of the Elizabethan era. Not only was it the Rose Theatre's greatest box-office success of 1597, it also presented an entirely new type of comedy, one that has profoundly influenced comic writing up to the present day. This play is the English theatre's first 'comedy of humours', in which the attitudes, behaviour, and social pretensions of contemporary men and women are satirised. Charles ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Revels Plays
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781526116925
SKU
V9781526116925
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About George Chapman
Charles Edelman is an Honorary Senior Fellow at Edith Cowan University -- .
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