Restoration Comedy
Crises of Desire and Identity
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1987
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-333-39747-3 (ISBN)
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-333-39747-3 (ISBN)
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What is Restoration comedy? What pleasure does it offer its audience, and what significance does it find in exploring that pleasure? Edward Burns here provides a new account of the origins and nature of Restoration comedy as a distinct genre. 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. It offers a substantial and original interpretation of one of the most intriguing of seventeenth-century literature forms.
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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.7.1987 |
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| Zusatzinfo | VIII, 283 p. |
| Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 521 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-333-39747-9 / 0333397479 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-333-39747-3 / 9780333397473 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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