{"product_id":"9781854596932-eastward-ho","title":"Eastward Ho!","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collaboratively written City Comedy which sees true love and virtue triumphing over social-climbing, deception and trickery. In the Nick Hern Books \u003cem\u003eRSC Classics \u003c\/em\u003eseries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Nick Hern Books \u003cem\u003eRSC Classics \u003c\/em\u003e- a series of rarely performed plays from the 16th and 17th centuries, published alongside their resurrection by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon and the West End.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEastward Ho!\u003c\/em\u003e is a collaboratively written City Comedy by Ben Jonson, John Marston and George Chapman, which sees true love and virtue triumphing over social-climbing, deception and trickery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTeeming with energy and larger than life characters, \u003cem\u003eEastward Ho!\u003c\/em\u003e sees Touchstone, a London goldsmith, preparing to marry off his two daughters. Touchstone's two apprentices lead the wooing until the rakish fop Sir Petronel Flash arrives on the scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEastward Ho! \u003c\/em\u003ewas first performed at the Blackfriars Theatre, London, in 1605.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition of the play is edited with an introduction by Helen Ostovich and preface by Gregory Doran.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe plays in the \u003cem\u003eRSC Classics\u003c\/em\u003e series reflect the diversity of styles, themes and subjects of the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage, and include a 'new' addition to the Shakespeare canon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41610637410401,"sku":"9781854596932","price":8.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28697439.jpg?v=1722845486","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781854596932-eastward-ho","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}