Neighbourly Relationships in Early Modern Drama

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Neighbourly Relationships in Early Modern Drama is written by Iman Sheeha and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1003545211 (ISBN 10) and 9781003545217 (ISBN 13).

"The book offers the first sustained examination of neighbourly relationships in early modern English drama, situating the close analyses of the selected plays within contemporary pre-scriptive literature (such as sermons and conduct books), letters, diaries, pamphlets, ballads, wills, proverbs, as well as the lived realities of early modern neighbourhoods as glimpsed in the historical and legal archives. The originality of the book lies in its topic, in the plays chosen for analysis, including Gammer Gurton's Needle, written in 1550s and believed to be the first printed vernacular English comedy, and in the revisionist close readings on offer. The plays span the period between 1550s and 1620s, belong to different genres, and were aimed at different audiences and written for different kinds of playhouses, allowing for con-clusions to be drawn about the way genre shapes the treatment of neighbourly relationships as well as revealing continuities and changes in this treatment over the period under study"-- Provided by publisher.