Parsing the City Jonson, Middleton, Dekker, and City Comedy's London as Language - Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Heather C. Easterling

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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.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780415541879
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Pub date:	12 Sep 2014
DEWEY:	822.309
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	160
Weight:	317g
Height:	234mm
Width:	156mm
Spine width:	13mm