Plotting Early Modern London: New Essays on Jacobean City Comedy. Ed. Dieter Mehl, Angela Stock, and Anne-Julia Zwierlein.

• Arthur F. Kinney

“With the publication of Brian Gibbons’s Jacobean City Comedy in 1968”, the editors of Plotting Early Modern London write, “these plays, in the words of Douglas Bruster, attained their ‘official status as a Renaissance subgenre, distinct by their farcical humour and ironic tone from ‘citizen comedy’” (p. 2). Gibbons himself had supplied his own definition, that such comedies were characterized by “their critical and satirical design, their urban settings, [and] their exclusion of material appropriate to romance, fairy-tale, sentimental legend or patriotic chronicle” (Gibbons, p. 11).

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