Preface; Introduction; 1. Shakespeare's green materials: Windsor Forest and The Merry Wives of Windsor; 2. Ben Jonson's gallant London; 3. Covent Garden: town culture and the location of wit; 4. Another green world: or, how to use Hyde Park; Epilogue: the game of culture; Works cited.
An exploration of wit, witlessness and social and comic conventions in the plays of Shakespeare, Jonson and their contemporaries.
Adam Zucker is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he teaches courses on early modern drama and poetry.
'This is a beautifully written book, often as witty as the cunning and eloquent characters whose staged urban triumphs it examines.' Michael Dobson, Around the Globe
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