01727--city comedy or citizen comedy

City comedy or citizen comedy is a kind of comic drama produced in the London theatres of the early 17th century, characterized by its contemporary urban subject-matter and its portrayal, often satirical, of middle-class life and manners. The principal examples are John Marston's The Dutch Courtezan, Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, and Thomas Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside.