Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780713650686 |
| ISBN10: | 07136506811 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 144 pages |
| Size: | 198x129x10 mm |
| Weight: | 168 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | photographs, line drawings |
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Category:
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
Series:
New Mermaids;
Edition number: 2
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Date of Publication: 28 March 2002
Number of Volumes: Paperback
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Short description:
This text is part of the New Mermaid series of modern spelling,
This text is part of the New Mermaid series of modern spelling,
fully-annotated editions of English plays. Each volume includes a
critical introduction, biography of the author, discussions of dates
and sources, textual details, a bibliography and information about the
staging of the play.
Long description:
Written for the adult players at the open-air Swan theatre in 1613,
this master-piece of Jacobean city comedy signals its ironic nature
even in the title: chaste maids, like most other goods and people in
London's busiest commercial area, are likely to be fake. Money is more
important than either happiness or honour; and the most coveted
commodities to be bought with it are sex and social prestige. Middleton
interweaves the fortunes of four families, who either seek to marry
their children off as profitably as possible, to stop having any more
for fear of poverty, or to acquire some in order to keep their property
in the family. Most prosperous is the husband who pimps his wife to a
rich knight and lets him support the household with his alimony. Like
many early modern critics of London's enormous growth, this play
warned: the city is a monster that lives off the money the country
produces.
this master-piece of Jacobean city comedy signals its ironic nature
even in the title: chaste maids, like most other goods and people in
London's busiest commercial area, are likely to be fake. Money is more
important than either happiness or honour; and the most coveted
commodities to be bought with it are sex and social prestige. Middleton
interweaves the fortunes of four families, who either seek to marry
their children off as profitably as possible, to stop having any more
for fear of poverty, or to acquire some in order to keep their property
in the family. Most prosperous is the husband who pimps his wife to a
rich knight and lets him support the household with his alimony. Like
many early modern critics of London's enormous growth, this play
warned: the city is a monster that lives off the money the country
produces.
