City comedy
City comedy is a common genre of Elizabethan drama. It is a vague term that different scholars use to mean slightly different things. Here are the usual meanings:
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- Any Elizabethan comedy set in London and depicting ordinary London life.
- Specifically, London comedies that are satirical in nature, depicting London as a hotbed of sin; in particular, the comedies of Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton and John Marston.
It can be considered a forerunner of the comedy of manners.
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