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.