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Lovers, liars, cheaters, fornicators, cross-dressers, and damsels in distress: the endlessly energetic stage comedy from the Elizabethan age to the Restoration has them all, and a whole bunch more as well. Emphasizing the work of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton, with some Shakespeare for good measure, we think about the plays' varying shades of satire and romance, and consider them both as written texts and as scripts for performance. Attention to theory of genre and history of comedy, making space always for laughter. |