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The Shoemaker’s Holiday

Thomas Dekker

Thomas Dekker

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The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama : An Introduction with Primary Sources

Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2017

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...The Shoemaker’s Holiday (1599) by Thomas Dekker is a fast-paced, cheery play that celebrates a particular section of the London citizenry – the artisan or manufacturing class, in this case the shoemakers. This class is made out...

Letters to Windsor House

Written by

Sh!t Theatre

~playauthor~Written by~ Sh!t Theatre

Oberon Books, 2017

Oberon Modern Plays

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...A loophole in the Postal Services Act says you can open other people’s mail under certain circumstances. This is that certain circumstance… Songs, politics, dodgy landlords and detective work: Another potentially felonious show...

Eastward Ho!

Written by

Ben Jonson

,

George Chapman

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John Marston

and

Michael Neill

Edited by

Michael Neill

~playauthor~Written by~ Ben Jonson , George Chapman , John Marston , Michael Neill ~playauthor~Edited by~ Michael Neill

Methuen Drama, 1995

New Mermaids

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 18, Roles: Total (23), Female (8), Male (15), Unassigned (0)

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...A collaboration between Jonson, Chapman and Marston, Eastward Ho! is a masterpiece of city comedy. Unique among the ‘coterie’ city comedies written for boy players, Eastward Ho! gives all classes a full satiric treatment simultaneously...

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

Written by

Thomas Middleton

and

Alan Brissenden

Edited by

Alan Brissenden

~playauthor~Written by~ Thomas Middleton , Alan Brissenden ~playauthor~Edited by~ Alan Brissenden

Methuen Drama, 2002

New Mermaids

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 14, Roles: Total (23), Female (10), Male (13), Unassigned (0)

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...A Chaste Maid in Cheapside is Middleton’s masterpiece of Jacobean city comedy, rich in irony and wordplay. Middleton welds together the themes of corruption, money and sex into a complex whole, in which comedy is mingled with disgust...

Introduction

Genevieve Love

Genevieve Love is Associate Professor of English at Colorado College, USA. Her work has appeared in journals including Renaissance Drama, Upstart, Shakespeare Bulletin, and Literature Compass, and in essay collections including Richard II: New Critical Essays, edited by Jeremy Lopez (2012) and Christopher Marlowe, Repertorial Commerce, and the Book Trade, edited by Roslyn Knutson and Kirk Melnikoff (2018). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Early Modern Theatre and the Figure of Disability

The Arden Shakespeare, 2019

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...Enter the Cripple.Enter Rafe being lame.Enter Stump.Enter three lame Souldiers.Enter Wallace, like a halting Souldier on wooden stumps.Enter a Cripple begging . . . Shewing his Crutch.Pull him by the legge, and pull it away.Enter Orlando...

The Tamer Tamed

Written by

John Fletcher

and

Lucy Munro

Edited by

Lucy Munro

~playauthor~Written by~ John Fletcher , Lucy Munro ~playauthor~Edited by~ Lucy Munro

Methuen Drama, 2010

New Mermaids

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 21, Roles: Total (19), Female (5), Male (14), Unassigned (0)

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...The Woman’s Prize, or The Tamer Tamed acts as a sort of ‘sequel’ to Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1590-4). Written nearly twenty years after Shakespeare’s violent Padua comedy, Fletcher’s city comedy relocates the ‘tamer...

Shylock

Written by

Arnold Wesker

~playauthor~Written by~ Arnold Wesker

Oberon Books, 2012

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (15), Female (5), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

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...Presented here are four epic history plays from Sir Arnold Wesker, which touch on the age-old conflicts caused by religion, science and the Establishment. Set in the Jewish ghetto of Venice, 1563, Shylock (1972) is based...

The Devil is an Ass

Written by

Ben Jonson

~playauthor~Written by~ Ben Jonson

Nick Hern Books, 1995

Drama Classics

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 38, Roles: Total (21), Female (5), Male (16), Unassigned (0)

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...Ben Jonson's play The Devil is an Ass is a Jacobean comedy first performed in 1616 by the King's Men and first published in 1631. The play opens in Hell, with a junior demon called Pug persuading his master Satan to let...

Epicoene or The Silent Woman

Written by

Ben Jonson

and

Roger Victor Holdsworth

Edited by

Roger Victor Holdsworth

~playauthor~Written by~ Ben Jonson , Roger Victor Holdsworth ~playauthor~Edited by~ Roger Victor Holdsworth

Methuen Drama, 2002

New Mermaids

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 30, Roles: Total (15), Female (7), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

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...Jonson’s buzzing satire on gender and language enjoyed enormous prestige for more than a century after its first performance. The central figure is Morose, who hates noise yet lives in the centre of London, and who, because of his decision...

The work of standing and of standing-for

Genevieve Love

Genevieve Love is Associate Professor of English at Colorado College, USA. Her work has appeared in journals including Renaissance Drama, Upstart, Shakespeare Bulletin, and Literature Compass, and in essay collections including Richard II: New Critical Essays, edited by Jeremy Lopez (2012) and Christopher Marlowe, Repertorial Commerce, and the Book Trade, edited by Roslyn Knutson and Kirk Melnikoff (2018). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Early Modern Theatre and the Figure of Disability

The Arden Shakespeare, 2019

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...‘The Cripple at work’ What is the ‘work’ of Cripple in the anonymous city comedy The Fair Maid of the Exchange (1607)? Cripple, who uses crutches due to an unexplained affliction to his legs, is occupied as a pattern-drawer in a shop...