A Jovial Crew, or The Merry Beggars by Richard Brome
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 43271164
- Type
- R - Scholarly edition
- DOI
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- Title of edition
- A Jovial Crew, or The Merry Beggars by Richard Brome
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
- ISBN
- 1844804429
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This edition (320+ pages) is the product of sustained research into a large body of primary material – jestbooks, sermons, rogue literature, courtier literature, music books, diaries, ballads, ephemera – on the writing, staging and publication of the last play put on before the closure of the theatres in 1642. Appendices provide the play’s music; define the source of the play’s beggar’s ‘cant’; and look, for the first time, at the words that Brome coined. This edition explores multiple contexts of the play’s composition and reception, including Caroline theatre, interregnum publication, and early modern language and music.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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