Eastward Ho! by Ben Jonson

Eastward Ho! by Ben Jonson

This collaborative masterpiece of hilarious city comedy was performed by the Children of the Revels at the Blackfriars playhouse in 1605. The story is of an allegorical simplicity that lends itself to satire of civic mores and traditions as well as to parody of the sentimental, idealising London comedy presented at the amphitheatres in the suburbs: Goldsmith Touchstone, an upright London citizen, has one modest and one ambitious daughter, one righteous and one disreputable apprentice; virtue is rewarded, ruthlessness comes to grief - and receives a drenching in the muddy Thames. The introduction to this edition discusses various methods of establishing authorship and highlights the irony of the collaborators' comic vision of contemporary London life.

Michael Neill is Professor of English, Department of English, University of Auckland, New Zealand, and editor of the Oxford Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra

SKU	GOR001239988
ISBN 13	9780713639834
ISBN 10	0713639830
Title	Eastward Ho!
Author	Ben Jonson
Series	New Mermaids
Condition	Very Good
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	1995-08-25
Number of pages	192
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