Plotting Early Modern London

With the publication of Brian Gibbons''s Jacobean City Comedy thirty-five years ago, the urban satires by Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton attained their ''official status as a Renaissance subgenre'' that was distinct, by its farcical humour and ironic tone, from ''citizen comedy'' or ''London drama'' more generally. This retrospective genre-building has proved immensely fruitful in t...