TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bradbrook,M.C.
TI  - The growth and structure of Elizabethan comedy
SN  - 0701105593
AV  - PR658.C6 B7 1973
U1  - 822.052 
PY  - 1973///
CY  - London
PB  - Chatto & Windus
KW  - English drama
KW  - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - English drama (Comedy)
N1  - In this study, first published in 1979, Professor Bradbrook adopts an historic approach to comedy as a social form, showing its beginnings in medieval drama, its development in various settings, the evolution of different 'kinds' or genres, and the Shakesperean synthesis. The critical comedy which emerged at the turn of the sixteenth century is associated with Ben Jonson, and he and Shakespeare are contrasted, whilst such figures round them as Lyly, Peele, Greene and Nashe in
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