Gammer Gurton's Needle

Name: Gammer Gurton's Needle
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ISBN: 9780713644975

ISBN-10: 0713644974

ISBN-13: 9780713644975

Edition: 2nd 1997

Authors: Charles Whitworth, Bloomsbury Publishing Staff

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Published in 1575 and acted at Christ's College, Cambridge, probably as early as King Edward V's reign, the drama of Grandma Gurton and her lost sewing needle, which is finally retrieved from the bottom of her servant Hodge's breeches, is an outstanding example of mid-Tudor comedy. Although a university production, the play's doggerel rhymes, its village characters and their dialect speech, its seemingly innocuous plot and its Rabelaisian humour are the very opposite of academic or neo-classical. Yet its anonymous author's ingenuity manifests itself at every turn, not least in the multiple ironies evoked when Diccon the trickster makes Hodge believe that he will conjure the devil by kissing…

Book details

List price: $13.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 6/30/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.264
Language: English