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An humorous day's mirth / George Chapman ; edited by Charles Edelman

Author
Chapman, George, 1559?-1634
Additional Titles
Title on facsim. t.p.: Pleasant comedy entitled An humerous dayes myrth and Humerous dayes myrth
Published
Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2010.
New York : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan.
Physical Description
xx, 173 pages ; 23 cm.
Additional Creators
Edelman, Charles

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: The Rose's new hit -- A typical London day -- The philosophy of mirth -- The four humours -- The humours and the soul -- Melancholy -- A comedy of manners -- From page to stage -- The text -- Conclusion.
Summary
This play is the English theatre's first 'comedy of humours', in which the attitudes, behaviour, and social pretensions of contemporary men and women are satirised. Charles Edelman's is the first fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of this long-neglected play.
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ISBN
9780719075742 (hbk.)
0719075742 (hbk.)
Note
"This edition relies on W.W. Greg's Malone Society reprint of the 1599 quarto, prepared with the assistance of David Smith (Oxford, 1938)"--P. [xi].
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [xi]-xx) and index.
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