The treatment of the middle class in the city comedies of Thomas Middleton
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Mary Moore Upchurch (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Jean Gagen
Abstract: The rise of the middle class to a position of economic importance and new social prestige in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries stimulated an unprecedented amount of literary activity, particularly in drama. The middle class, a curious social phenomenon which affected every facet of Elizabethan life, provided playwrights with innumerable dramatic possibilities. The great number of plays written in this period for or about the middle class testifies to the importance of these citizens in the theatrical world. Thomas Middleton, gentleman and Cambridge scholar, chose the middle class as a major source of character and plot in many of his city comedies, and it is to his plays that we turn most often for a display of the robust life of the period.
The treatment of the middle class in the city comedies of Thomas Middleton
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- Publication
- Honors Project
- Language: English
- Date: 1960