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An Humorous Days Mirth

by Charles Edelman

Cover of An Humorous Days Mirth

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.

English drama, history and criticism, early modern and elizabethan, 1500-1600English dramaThéâtre anglaisEarly modern and ElizabethanDramaEnglisch