Mr. Turbulent

This critical edition offers a fully annotated modernized text of the Restoration comedy «Mr. Turbulent» . The introduction adresses topics such as the political dimension of the green spaces of Restoration London represented onstage; and the rethorical use of madness associated with the Bedlam hospital for the insane.

Mr. Turbulent (1682) is an anonymous city comedy which starred popular comic actors and young actresses of great appeal. The play was produced in the immediate aftermath of the Exclusion Crisis. This first-ever critical edition offers a fully annotated modernized version of the text, together with an introduction that examines the contexts of the play. The editor also discusses at length such topics as the political dimension of the Moorfields setting and the green spaces of Restoration London. He examines as well the rethorical use of madness associated with the Bedlam hospital for the insane, the other pivotal cityscape setting in the comedy.

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Jorge Blanco-Vacas holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the Universidad de Sevilla. He is a member of the Restoration Comedy Project. His research interests include anonymity in the late Carolean stage, textual topographies of London in the Restoration period and the relations between drama, politics and religion in the late seventeenth century.

Inhalt
The stage history of Mr. Turbulent Comedy in the late Carolean period (1678-1682): a stage in crisis Mr. Turbulent: politics, place and identity Moorfields: green spaces and tory anxieties Bedlam: madness as a political trope Monetary units alluded to in Mr. Turbulent