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Deep Play : John Gay and the Invention of Modernity

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'Deep Play' examines the emergence of modern self- and social-consciousness in eighteenth-century Britain as an awareness of class and culture.

It examines popular ballads and songs, country dances, catches, mumming plays, beliefs and sayings, fables, stories, and legends as these plebeian cultural materials are brought by Gay to comment on 'polite' opera, drama, and literature.

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University of Delaware Press
1611491959 / 9781611491951
Hardback
821.5
01/03/2001
United States
322 pages
169 x 245 mm, 637 grams