[ebooks] Painting Nature in Watercolor with Cathy Johnson: 37 Step-by-Step Demonstrations Using Watercolor Pencil and Paint by Cathy Johnson in Arts-Photography

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Let him kill a lion with a pestle; husband; let him kill a lion with a pestle.So exclaims the Grocers wife who; with her husband and servants; is attending one of the Londons elite playhouses where a theatre comany has just begun to perform. Peeved at the fact that all the plays they see are satires on the lives and values of Londons citizenry; the Grocer and his wife interrupt and demand a play that instead contains chivalric quests and courtly love. Whats more; they nominate their apprentice Rafe to take on the heros role of the knight in this entirely new play.The author; Francis Beaumont; ends up not just satirising the grocers naive taste for romance but parodying his own example of citizen comedy. This play-within-a-play becomes a pastiche of contemporary plays that scorned those who were not courtiers or at least gentlemen or ladies. Like Cervantes in Don Quixote; Beaumont exposes the folly of those that take representations for realities; but also celebrates their idealism and love of adventure.The editor; Michael Hattaway; is editor of plays by Shakespeare and Jonson as well as of several volumes of critical essays; and author of Elizabethan Popular Theatre; Hamlet: The Critics Debate; and Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature. He is Professor Emeritus of English Literature in the University of Sheffield.