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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