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A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, is a comedy about four noble lovers who join the beggar community for a pastoral life of dance and song. Or is it? Whilst maintaining its unremitting good humour, A Jovial Crew shows that the literary depiction of beggar life, and real beggar life, are profoundly different. Daily aspects of life in the beggar world - poverty, dirt, licentiousness - come as a surprise to the well-born, who are ultimately led to question their own values. The last production mounted before theatres were closed for the English Civil War, A Jovial Crew's exploration of class, commonwealth, kinship and kingship shows an intense engagement with contemporary politics. This edition, with dedicated sections on music and language in the play, argues that A Jovial Crew also offers a nostalgic farewell to English theatre. It explores Brome's attitude to performance and print, and follows A Jovial Crew from its first, Caroline staging, to its later manifestations as a Restoration comedy, an eighteenth-century opera, and a twentieth-century proto-Marxist tragicomedy.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Plays, playscripts

• Full title: Jovial Crew
• Author: Richard Brome
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 328
• EAN: 9781408130018
• ISBN: 1408130017
• ID: 04780911
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 438 g
• Dimensions: 134 × 206 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. January 2014

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