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Brome (Richard) The Antipodes: a Comedie, first edition, variant issue with the verses on A4 recto signed 'R.C.', occasional browning or soiling to margins, later wrappers with ink name to upper cover, spine chipped and worn, [STC3818; Pforzheimer 106], small 4to, by I. Okes, for Francis Constable, and are to be sold at his shops in Kings-street at the signe of the Goat, and in Westminster-hall, 1640.

⁂ 'In The Antipodes, his most ambitious play, a clan of sexually frustrated Londoners are cured by the performance of a play set in a fantasy Anti-London that provocatively inverts all the hierarchies of the normal world... The play leaves open the question of whether London or Anti-London is to be preferred'. - ODNB.

Description

Brome (Richard) The Antipodes: a Comedie, first edition, variant issue with the verses on A4 recto signed 'R.C.', occasional browning or soiling to margins, later wrappers with ink name to upper cover, spine chipped and worn, [STC3818; Pforzheimer 106], small 4to, by I. Okes, for Francis Constable, and are to be sold at his shops in Kings-street at the signe of the Goat, and in Westminster-hall, 1640.

⁂ 'In The Antipodes, his most ambitious play, a clan of sexually frustrated Londoners are cured by the performance of a play set in a fantasy Anti-London that provocatively inverts all the hierarchies of the normal world... The play leaves open the question of whether London or Anti-London is to be preferred'. - ODNB.

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