Eastward Ho!

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Eastward Ho!
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Ben Jonson
Edited by Professor Michael Neill
By (author) George Chapman
By (author) John Marston
SeriesNew Mermaids
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:192
Category/GenrePlays, playscripts
Literary studies - c 1500 to c 1800
Literary studies - plays and playwrights
ISBN/Barcode 9780713639834
ClassificationsDewey:822.3
Audience
A / AS level
Undergraduate
General
Illustrations 5 b&w photos

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publication Date 25 August 1995
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

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