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 the year 1598. The term English literature refers to Literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by Writers not necessarily from Comedy (from the Greek κωμωδίαkomodia has a popular meaning (any discourse generally intended to amuse especially in Television, Film, and William Haughton (d 1605 was an English Playwright in the age of English Renaissance theatre. Scholars and critics often cite it as the first city comedy;[1] the play inaugurated a sub-genre of drama that was exploited and developed by Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, and others in the years and decades that followed. City comedy, also called Citizen Comedy is a common genre of Elizabethan drama. Thomas Dekker is the name of Thomas Dekker (writer (1572&ndash1632 Elizabethan poet and dramatist Thomas Dekker (actor (born 1987 Thomas Middleton (1580 &ndash 1627 was an English Jacobean playwright and Poet.
The records of theatre manager and impressario Philip Henslowe show that Haughton received installment payments for his work on the play between November 1597 and May 1598. Impresario, from the Italian impresa an enterprise or undertaking is a traditional term still very much in use in the Entertainment industry for The play is thought to have been premiered onstage, by the Admiral's Men at the Rose Theatre, before the end of the latter year. 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 Rose was an Elizabethan theatre. It was the fourth of the public theatres to be built after The Theatre ( 1576) the Curtain The work was entered into the Stationers' Register on August 3, 1601, but was not published until 1616, when the first quarto edition was issued by the bookseller William White. The Stationers' Register was a record book maintained by the Stationers' Company of London The size of a specific Book is measured from the head to tail of the spine and from edge to edge across the covers A second quarto appeared in 1626, from stationer Hugh Perry, and a third in 1631, from Richard Thrale. The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers (better known as the Stationers' Company) is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London [2]
The play is set among the contemporary merchant class of London in its own era, the men who dealt on the Royal Exchange founded by Sir Thomas Gresham. The Royal Exchange in the City of London was founded in 1565 by Sir Thomas Gresham to act as a centre of Commerce for the city Sir Thomas Gresham (c 1519 &ndash 21 November, 1579) was an English Merchant and Financier who worked for King Edward VI of England The merchant and moneylender Pisaro has three half-English daughters, Laurentia, Marina, and Mathea. The daughters face two trios of suitors, one foreign and one domestic. The foreigners are Delion, a Frenchman, Alvaro, and Italian, and Vandal, a Dutchman. Pisaro, himself from Portugal, favors these candidates because of their wealth; but his daughters prefer their English suitors, Harvey, Heigham, and Walgrave. The play is rich in courtship, dialect humor, and disguises and gender cross-dressing, with abundant comic material from the clown character Frisco. In the end, as the title indicates, the Englishmen win their brides (which helps to cancel out the debts they owe to Pisaro).
The play displays a popular dislike of Englishwomen being courted by foreigners that is also expressed in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, which was written and acted at about the same time (c. William Shakespeare ( baptised The Merry Wives of Windsor is a Comedy by William Shakespeare, first published in 1602, though believed to have been written prior to 1597 1597–9). Critics have studied the play for its attitude toward, and treatment of, foreigners in England. [3] Some critics have interpreted the character Pisaro as a Jew; though the word "Jew" is never used in the play, Pisaro compares himself to Judas and is called "Signior Bottle-nose,"[4] which has been read as an expression of the anti-Semitism endemic in English and European culture in the period. Antisemitism (alternatively spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism; also rarely known as judeophobia) is the Prejudice against or hostility [5]
References
- ^ Stott, Andrew. Comedy. London, Routledge, 2005; p. 44.
- ^ Chambers, E. K. The Elizabethan Stage. Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers (1866&ndash1954 was an English literary critic and Shakespearean scholar 4 Volumes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923; Vol. 3, pp. 334-5.
- ^ Hoenselaars, A. J. Images of Englishmen and Foreigners in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. Rutherford, NJ, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1992; pp. 53-62.
- ^ Berryman, John. Berryman's Shakespeare: Essays, Letters, and Other Writings. Edited by John Haffenden; New York, Tauris Parke, 2001; Introduction (Haffenden), p. lv.
- ^ Biberman, Matthew S. Masculinity, Anti-Semitism, and Early Modern English Literature: From the Satanic to the Effeminate Jew. London, Ashgate, 2004; pp. 58-9.
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