{"product_id":"9781904271772","title":"A Jovial Crew (Arden Early Modern Drama)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, is a comedy about four noble lovers who join the beggar community for a pastoral life of dance and song. Or is it? Whilst maintaining its unremitting good humour, A Jovial Crew shows that the literary depiction of beggar life, and real beggar life, are profoundly different. Daily aspects of life in the beggar world - poverty, dirt, licentiousness - come as a surprise to the well-born, who are ultimately led to question their own values.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe last production mounted before theatres were closed for the English Civil War, A Jovial Crew's exploration of class, commonwealth, kinship and kingship shows an intense engagement with contemporary politics. This edition, with dedicated sections on music and language in the play, argues that A Jovial Crew also offers a nostalgic farewell to English theatre. It explores Brome's attitude to performance and print, and follows A Jovial Crew from its first, Caroline staging, to its later manifestations as a Restoration comedy, an eighteenth-century opera, and a twentieth-century proto-Marxist tragicomedy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Arden Shakespeare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49753336840440,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":50.81,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9781904271772-1.jpg?v=1783750498","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9781904271772","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}