Elizabethan Grotesque

by Neil Rhodes

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Epilonian Books presents ... Elizabethan Grotesque ISBN:0710005997 Author:Neil Rhodes Publisher:Routledge & Kegan Paul Release Date:1980 Seller Category:Literature Qty Available:1 Condition:Used: Very Good Sku: 20260428017 Notes: Routledge & Kegan Paul, Published 1980. Hardcover, xiv, 207 pp.; 23 cm; First Edition. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Yellow cloth-covered boards with silver lettering on the spine; mild shelf wear and edge wear to the covers; binding tight. Previous owner's name, date, and city in ink at the top corner of the front free endpaper. Otherwise unmarked. Pale green illustrated dust jacket (woodcut-style grotesque figure on the front panel) has a few small nicks and creasing along the edges, mild toning overall, and toning with spotting to both the front and back jacket flaps. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover.[From front jacket flap] The comic grotesque is a powerful element in a great deal of Elizabethan literature, but one which has attracted scant critical attention. In this study Neil Rhodes examines the nature of the grotesque in late sixteenth-century culture, and shows what part it played in the development of new styles of comic prose and drama in Elizabethan England. In defining "grotesque" the author considers the stylistic techniques of Rabelais and Aretino, as well as the graphic arts. He discusses the use of the grotesque in Elizabethan pamphlet literature and the early satirical journalists such as N

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1980
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780710005991
• Condition: Very Good

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