Character as Meme.
This essay considers Eastward Ho, the 1605 collaboration between George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John Marston, to explore how the play, and early modern city comedy more broadly, produces dramatic character at the scale of the phrase. Drawing upon meme theory, which tracks cultural replication and t...
| Published in: | Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 54 - 84 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Spring2021
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