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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"John Gay"”.
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The culture of crime: representations of the criminal in eighteen-century England
… Chapters on the criminal narratives of John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe and John Gay reveal how the criminal narrative functioned as a means of critiquing a developing commercial society in England. Bunyan first employs the formula of the criminal biography to offer a prophetic critique of the …
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'Cross-over' comedy in seventeenth-century England : from Michaelmas Term to The Roundheads
… discussion of examples by authors such as John Fletcher, Thomas Middleton, and Richard Brome. Abraham Cowley‟s Cutter of Coleman Street is closely compared with his earlier version The Guardian, identifying revisions with resonance for the Restoration. The huge influence of Thomas Killigrew …
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Satire's Liminal Space: The Conservative Function of Eighteenth-Century Satiric Drama
<p>The eighteenth century is famous for producing literary satire, primarily in verse (and later prose) form. However, during this period, a new dramatic form also arose of which satire was the controlling element. And like the writers of prose and verse satires, playwrights of dramatic satire …
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Reconsidering Randy Shilts: examining the reportage of America's AIDS chronicler
The role of openly-gay reporter and author Randy Shilts (1951-1994) is examined related to his use of journalistic practices and places him on a continuum of traditional reporting roles as considered in the context of twentieth century philosophers Walter Lippmann and John Dewey. Reporter functions …