Laborless London: Comic Form and the Space of the Town in Caroline Covent Garden

Zucker attends to the dynamic nature of London itself as a seventeenth-century urban construct. Examining the comedies of Richard Brome and Thomas Nabbes, Zucker argues that they participate in the construction of a new kind of urban topography for the London elite: one made possible by the Italianate model of the piazza introduced for the first time to the citizens of London through the construction of Covent Garden.