Richard Brome: Place and Politics on the Caroline StageRichard Brome was the leading comic playwright of 1630s London. Starting his career as a manservant to Ben Jonson, he wrote a string of highly successful comedies which were influential in British theatre long after Brome's own playwriting career was cut short by the closure of the theatres in 1642. |
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... Queen's Exchange Both The Weeding of Covent Garden and The Queen's Exchange are con- cerned with delusion , since both have a hallucinating central character . Both also are highly political : and I will argue that another resemblance ...
... Queen's Exchange draws on the period of history between the end of Celtic Britain and before the arrival of the Normans , a period relatively little represented on the English stage . Within this period , Brome inserts a plot that ...
... Queen's Exchange , the proposed union never properly takes effect . Bertha discovers she has married not Osric ( who turns out not really to be worthy of her ) but the Saxon Anthynus , who merely looks strangely like him , and therefore ...