City comedy, also called Citizen Comedy, is a common genre of Elizabethan drama. English Renaissance theatre is English drama written between the Reformation and the closure of the theatres in 1642. It is a vague term that different scholars use to mean slightly different things. Some usual meanings of the term include:
- Any Elizabethan comedy set in London and depicting ordinary London life. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. These include works which celebrate the lives of ordinary citizens, such as Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday. Thomas Dekker is the name of Thomas Dekker (writer (1572&ndash1632 Elizabethan poet and dramatist Thomas Dekker (actor (born 1987 The Shoemaker's Holiday or the Gentle Craft is an Elizabethan play written by Thomas Dekker.
- London comedies that are specifically satirical in nature, depicting London as a hotbed of sin; in particular, some of the comedies of Ben Jonson (The Devil is an Ass, Every Man in his Humour), Thomas Middleton (Michaelmas Term, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside) and John Marston (Jack Drum's Entertainment). Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form; although in practice it is also found in the graphic and Performing arts In satire human Benjamin Jonson ( c 11 June 1572 &ndash 6 August 1637) was an English Renaissance Dramatist The Devil is an Ass is a Jacobean Comedy by Ben Jonson, first performed in 1616 and first published in 1631. Every Man in His Humour is a 1598 play by the English Playwright Ben Jonson. Thomas Middleton (1580 &ndash 1627 was an English Jacobean playwright and Poet. Michaelmas Term is a Jacobean comedy by Thomas Middleton. It was first performed in 1604 by the Children of Paul's, and was entered A Chaste Maid in Cheapside is a City comedy written c 1613 by English Renaissance Playwright Thomas Middleton. John Marston (baptised October 7, 1576 – June 25, 1634) was an English poet playwright and satirist during the late Elizabethan Jack Drum's Entertainment is a late Elizabethan play written by the dramatist and satirist John Marston c
The first city comedy is generally agreed to be Englishmen for My Money, written by William Haughton and first performed in 1598 by the Admiral's Men. Englishmen for My Money or A Woman Will Have Her Will is an Elizabethan era stage play a Comedy written by William Haughton that dates from William Haughton (d 1605 was an English Playwright in the age of English Renaissance theatre. The Admiral's Men (also called the Admiral's company, more strictly the Earl of Nottingham's Men; after 1603, Prince Henry's Men; after The genre soon became very popular; the intricately-plotted romantic comedies of Shakespeare and John Lyly that had been in vogue on the public and private stages until this point were largely supeseded by plays which were set in a recognisable contemporary London, and which dealt with, in Ben Jonson's words, "deeds and language such as men do use" (Prologue to Every Man in his Humour). William Shakespeare ( baptised John Lyly ( Lilly or Lylie) (c 1553 or 1554 &ndash November 1606 was an English writer best known for his books Euphues The Anatomy of Wit Benjamin Jonson ( c 11 June 1572 &ndash 6 August 1637) was an English Renaissance Dramatist Every Man in His Humour is a 1598 play by the English Playwright Ben Jonson.
Other notable examples of the genre are Westward Ho, Eastward Ho, Northward Ho, and Greene's Tu Quoque. Westward Ho (or Ho!, or Hoe) is an early Jacobean era stage play a Satire and City comedy by Eastward Hoe or Eastward Ho, is an early Jacobean era stage play a Satire and City comedy written by George Chapman, Northward Ho (or Ho!, or Hoe) is an early Jacobean era stage play a Satire and City comedy written Greene's Tu Quoque also known as The City Gallant is a Jacobean era stage play a Comedy written by John Cooke
The city comedy can be considered a forerunner of the comedy of manners. The comedy of manners satirizes the manners and affectations of a Social class, often represented by Stock characters, such as the Miles gloriosus
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