ENG202Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Roaring Girl, City Comedy, Rough Copy
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Eng202 middleton and dekker"s the roaring girl. Context for the roaring girl: third example of renaissance drama so far; a genre of significance during this time. Drama in particular given attention by state censors. Theatre itself seen as a problematic institution. All three plays express a disenchantment with conventional authority. Lear and faustus center around a man with great power who falls because they are too deeply concerned with the truth: lea(cid:396)"s (cid:373)issio(cid:374) to disti(cid:374)guish (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) t(cid:396)uth a(cid:374)d p(cid:396)ete(cid:374)se a(cid:374)d. The roaring girl follows these themes, but breaks away from lear and: publishing of plays. Rough copy written and performed, then text published much later. Shakespeare, for example, published only after his death. Jacobean city comedies: comedy not about the person at the center of the play, but about the circumstance; the world is victorious, not the individual, city comedies interested in london city life, particularly the criminal underworld. Attention to the true seediness of the theatre, perhaps.
