Literary studies: plays & playwrights
An Humorous Day's Mirth
by George Chapman
Edited by Charles Edelman. Series edited by David Bevington, Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, Helen Ostovich
Description
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 Edelman's is the first fully annotated, modern spelling edition of this long-neglected play. In his extensive introduction and commentary, Edelman discusses the intellectual, philosophical and theatrical background, and shows that the play would delight the readers and audiences of today as much as those in 1597.
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Author Biography
Charles Edelman is an Honorary Senior Fellow at Edith Cowan University. David Bevington is Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago Helen Ostovich is Professor of English at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Richard Dutton is Humanities Distinguished Professor at Ohio State University.
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Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date May 2017
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781526116925 / 1526116928
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 14.99 GBP
- Pages200
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions216 x 138 mm
- Illustration1 black & white illustration
- Biblio NotesGeneral editors' preface Editions and Textual Studies Collated, in Chronological Order Editions of Early Modern Dramatic Works cited in Commentary Other Primary Works Cited in Commentary Secondary Works Cited in Commentary Abbreviations: Notes and collation Introduction The Rose's New Hit A Typical London Day The Philosophy of Mirth The Four Humours The Humours and the soul Melancholy A Comedy of Manners From Page to Stage The Text Conclusion An Humorous Day's Mirth Appendix: Dowsecer's Defence of Cosmetics (7.00-00)
- SeriesRevels Plays
