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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... Shaw's 1980 account of Brome as ' one of the merriest ' of Renaissance playwrights , as a ' blunt ' man of the people . According to Shaw , Brome ' knew most intimately the common man of the hustle and bustle of London and is at his ...
... Shaw , RB , 139 ; Cope , The Theater and the Dream , 134 . 24 Butler , Theatre and Crisis , 266 . 25 Shaw , RB , 94 ; Andrews , RB , 79 ; Thomas Middleton , Hengist , King of Kent , ed . R. C. Bald ( London : Charles Scribner's Sons ...
... Shaw , RB , 54–6 . 33 Butler , Theatre and Crisis , 214 ; Findlay , Illegitimate Power , 210 - II . 34 Sharpe , Personal Rule , 550–98 , quotation from 586 : see also 717–30 . 35 Sharpe , Personal Rule , 552 ; Bentley , JCS , 5.1398 ...