{"product_id":"the-fleer-9781854599285","title":"The Fleer","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart of the \u003cem\u003eGlobe Quartos\u003c\/em\u003e series, co-published with Shakespeare's Globe marking their rediscoveries of forgotten plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eEdward Sharpham's \u003cem\u003eThe Fleer\u003c\/em\u003e is a bawdy, satiric and theatrically allusive comedy that was extremely popular with seventeenth-century readers. It is considered an early response to Shakespeare's \u003cem\u003eMeasure for Measure\u003c\/em\u003e and Marston's \u003cem\u003eThe Malcontent.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Florentine duke Antifront is deposed by a usurper and escapes to London, where he disguises himself as a misanthrope called Fleer. When not jeering at Jacobean society, Antifront busies himself with preventing his dissolute daughters from committing murder and with steering them into marriage. Meanwhile, two sisters find that disguising themselves as boys to win their sweethearts is not as simple as other dramatists might have you believe...\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Fleer\u003c\/em\u003e was first performed in 1606.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThis edition in the \u003cem\u003eGlobe Quartos\u003c\/em\u003e series is edited by Lucy Munro.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nick Hern Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516182389079,"sku":"9781854599285","price":31.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-fleer-9781854599285","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}