mad-cap

Come-on you mad-cap: Ile to the Ale-houſe vvith you preſently; […]

VVhy vvhat a mad-cap hath heauen lent vs here?

There vvas then in preſence, a certaine old Knight, called Sir Hugh Linne, a good ſouldier, but a very mad-cap, & one that liued chiefely vpon the liberalitie of noble men; […]

[H]is mad-cap follies, / VVhich ſtill like Hydras heads grovv thicker on him.

[T]hose fairy times when I was a mad-cap boy, crowding every enjoyment into the present moment; […]

With this shift in both what shows are being made, and in what viewers desire, the genre hearteningly appears to be reverting to its roots of being an entertainment spectacular, giving the space for n