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Shakespeare on Stage
American Shakespeare Center, The Merchant of Venice. To Nov. 23, 2012.
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, The Comedy of Errors. To Jul. 29, 2012.
American Shakespeare Center, The Lion in Winter. To Nov. 24, 2012.
Folger Shakespeare Library, The Taming of the Shrew. To Jun. 10, 2012.
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Henry IV, Part One. To Jun. 24, 2012.
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Town and country

From the title page of Greene's Quip for an Upstart Courtier (1592).
Reproduced in Social England, ed. H.D.Traill. University of Victoria Library.

Comedies, particularly in the later Jacobean period, often gain humour at the expense of the simple country fellow. Here the costumes of town and country are contrasted.