Description
Book SynopsisMr. Turbulent (1682) is an anonymous city comedy which starred popular comic actors and young actresses of great appeal. The play was produced in the immediate aftermath of the Exclusion Crisis. This first-ever critical edition offers a fully annotated modernized version of the text, together with an introduction that examines the contexts of the play. The editor also discusses at length such topics as the political dimension of the Moorfields setting and the green spaces of Restoration London. He examines as well the rethorical use of madness associated with the Bedlam hospital for the insane, the other pivotal cityscape setting in the comedy.
Table of ContentsThe stage history of Mr. Turbulent – Comedy in the late Carolean period (1678-1682): a stage in crisis – Mr. Turbulent: politics, place and identity – Moorfields: green spaces and tory anxieties – Bedlam: madness as a political trope – Monetary units alluded to in Mr. Turbulent
