Banquets Set Forth by Meads, Christopher ISBN 0719055679

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Banqueting in English Renaissance drama.

Food, sex, drink, flattery, violence and revenge - who could ask for anything more?; Banquets proved an enduring setting in which to play out crucial and compelling sections of ninety-nine surviving plays written between 1585 and 1642; Provides a full account of these banquet scenes on the English Renaissance stages, placing the play-texts within their contexts in terms of contemporary banqueting practices; Examines the changes and developments in the use of banquets and banqueting on the stage; Covers the notable contributions made by Heywood, by Middleton and Dekker, by Fletcher and his various collaborators, by a group of playwrights such as Ford, Davenant, Shirley, Brome, plus numerous minor writers of the late-Jacobean and Caroline phase

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[edit] Title

Banquets Set Forth

[edit] Author

Meads, Christopher

[edit] ISBN

0719055679

[edit] Published

09/08/2001

[edit] Publisher

Manchester University Press

[edit] Binding

HARDBACK

[edit] Retail Price

45 (GBP)

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45 (GBP)

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