Restoration Comedy

Crises of Desire and Identity

Inbunden, Engelska, 1987

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The book enlarges the usual focus with a wider range of writers than the conventional ossified canon taking in a revaluation of many rarely studied dramatists, a reconsideration of pastoral, and the instatement of women writers as major contributors to the culture of the age.

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Utgivningsdatum1987-07-28
Mått140 x 216 x 23 mm
Vikt486 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor283
Upplaga1987
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780333397473

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Preface - Introduction - What is Restoration Comedy? - Jonsonian Moralists and Caroline Decorum - 'A Lantskip of these Kingdoms' - 'The Scene, London; the Time Equal to that of the Presentation' - From 'Decorum' to 'Nature': Etherege and the Wits - William Wycherley - 'The Wits' Garden': Court Forms and Libertine Philosophies - Professional Dramatists - Thomas Otway - Aphra Behn - Marriage and the Comedy of the Nineties: Dryden's Amphitryon and Crowne's The Married Beau - The Etheregean Revival - Congreve - The Last Restoration Comedies: Farquhar, Centlivre and Steele - Conclusion: Newgate Pastoral; John Gay and 'The Beggars Opera' - Index