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Elizabethan Grotesque (Routledge Revivals)

Elizabethan Grotesque (Routledge Revivals)

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Revivals

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 113880407X
ISBN13: 9781138804074
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 13 2014
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The comic grotesque is a powerful element in a great deal of Elizabethan literature, but one which has attracted scant critical attention. In this study, first published in 1980, Neil Rhodes examines the nature of the grotesque in late sixteenth-century culture, and shows the part it played in the development of new styles of comic prose and drama in Elizabethan England. The second part of the book explains the importance of Nashe's achievement for Shakespeare and Jonson, concluding that the linguistic resources of English Renaissance comedy are peculiarly - and perhaps uniquely - physical.

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