This excellent volume brings together four of the most popular, most
frequently studied and performed comedies that depict city life, by
Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson and their contemporaries.
Included are The Roaring Girl, The Shoemaker's Holiday, Eastward
Ho!, and Every Man in His Humour. The text is freshly edited using
modern spelling. A critical introduction, a wide-ranging annotation, and
an informative bibliography illuminate the plays' cultural contexts and
theatrical potential for reader and performer alike.
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