{"product_id":"a-jovial-crew-paperback","title":"A Jovial Crew - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Brome\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTiffany Stern\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Jovial Crew\u003c\/i\u003e, or the\u003ci\u003e Merry Beggars\u003c\/i\u003e, is a comedy about four noble lovers who join the beggar community for a pastoral life of dance and song. Or is it? Whilst maintaining its unremitting good humour, \u003ci\u003e A Jovial Crew \u003c\/i\u003eshows that the literary depiction of beggar life, and real beggar life, are profoundly different. Daily aspects of life in the beggar world - poverty, dirt, licentiousness - come as a surprise to the well-born, who are ultimately led to question their own values.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe last production mounted before theatres were closed for the English Civil War, \u003ci\u003eA Jovial Crew\u003c\/i\u003e's exploration of class, commonwealth, kinship and kingship shows an intense engagement with contemporary politics. This edition, with dedicated sections on music and language in the play, argues that \u003ci\u003eA Jovial Crew\u003c\/i\u003e also offers a nostalgic farewell to English theatre. It explores Brome's attitude to performance and print, and follows \u003ci\u003eA Jovial Crew\u003c\/i\u003e from its first, Caroline staging, to its later manifestations as a Restoration comedy, an eighteenth-century opera, and a twentieth-century proto-Marxist tragicomedy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Brome\u003c\/b\u003e (c.1590-1653) was an English dramatist of the Caroline era who wrote for all the major acting companies and theatres. His career as a playwright was put on hold during one of the longest periods of theatre closure. When theatres reopened during the Restoration, a handful of Brome's plays were performed and republished, and the most successful of these was \u003ci\u003eA Jovial Crew.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTiffany Stern\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Early Modern Drama and Fellow of University College at the University of Oxford, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.7 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 30, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174721175801,"sku":"9781904271772","price":35.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/YkNxMmdUNG5jNXBNaThPU211aHZXdz09.webp?v=1767650726","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/a-jovial-crew-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}