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'The achievement of the drama of the Jacobean period was to muster the support a mass audience will give to clever or heroic individuals who set themselves against a network of contrivance or corruption'. Discuss.
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'The achievement of the drama of the Jacobean period was to muster the support a mass audience will give to clever or heroic individuals who set themselves against a network of contrivance or corruption'. Discuss. The drama of the early Jacobean period saw a switch between a satirical 'city comedy' genre, and works cast more in the tragi-comic mould. In both these type of plays the dramatist usually succeeds in summoning up the support of the audience for the (often roguish) characters who triumph in a duplicitous world. However, in both genres we also see a different achievement, wherein lies a perhaps more moral message than would appear from the sometimes purely materialistic victories of the clever individuals in both A Trick to Catch the Old One, and No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's. Thomas Middleton (1580 -1627) wrote a number of plays which could be described as the 'city...
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