The Ludic Self in Seventeenth-Century English Literature

The Ludic Self in Seventeenth-Century English LiteratureThis book argues that play offered Hamlet, John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Robert Burton, and Sir Thomas Browne a way to live within the contradictions and conflicts of late Renaissance life by providing a new stance for the self. Grounding its argument in recent theories of play and in a historical analysis that sees the seventeenth century as a point of crisis in the formation of the western self, the author demonstrates how play helped

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the leading comic playwright of 1630s London - reconstructs the chronology of his career from manservant to successful professional dramatist and beyond

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