The Stoic, the Weal and the Malcontent

The Stoic, the Weal and the Malcontent
ISBN-10
1904799612
ISBN-13
9781904799610
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
264
Language
English
Published
2013-10
Author
Julia Lacey Broke

Description

The stage Malcontent had his immediate antecedents in real life. He also had a dramatic ancestry in the medieval Vice and the Fool. Julia Lacey Brooke's remarkably perceptive book sheds new light on the the development and relevance of the Malcontent in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama.

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