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Author : Carl Joseph Stratman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research written by Carl Joseph Stratman and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Wycherley
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408179911
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Country Wife written by William Wycherley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.' This bawdy, hilarious, subversive and wickedly satirical drama pokes fun at the humourless, the jealous, and the adulterous alike. It features a country wife, Margery, whose husband believes she is too naïve to cuckold him; and an anti-hero, Horner, who pretends to be impotent in order to have unrestrained access to the women keen on 'the sport'. A number of licentious and hypocritical women request Horner's services – the country wife among them. The Country Wife has provoked powerfully mixed reactions over the years. The seventeenth century libertine king Charles II saw it twice, and is said to have joined the 'dance of the cuckolds' at the end of one performance; the eighteenth century actor-playwright David Garrick declared it 'the most licentious play in the English language'; the Victorian Macaulay compared it to a skunk, because it was 'too filthy to handle and too noisome even to approach'. Twentieth century productions heralded it a Restoration masterpiece. Sexually frank, and as ready to criticise marriage as infidelity, the virtuosity, linguistic energy, brilliant wit, naughtiness and complexity of this ribald play have made it a staple of the modern stage. This student edition contains a lengthy, entirely new introduction, by leading scholar, Tiffany Stern, with a background on the author, structure, characters, genre, themes, original staging and performance history, as well as an updated bibliography and a fully annotated version of the playtext.
Author : J. L. Styan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521274210
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Restoration Comedy in Performance written by J. L. Styan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-08-29 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the ways in which Restoration comedy was performed, using the costume, customs, manners and behaviour of the age as a way of understanding its theatre and drama. It also considers problems encountered in early twentieth century revivals of plays by authors such as Etherege, Dryden, Congreve and Farquhar.
Author : Wilkinson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004623337
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Comedy of Habit written by Wilkinson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1964-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Holt Hutton
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Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The National Review written by Richard Holt Hutton and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Cowan
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300133502
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Social Life of Coffee written by Brian Cowan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.
Author : Monica Mattfeld
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 027107972X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Becoming Centaur written by Monica Mattfeld and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of the relationship between men and their horses in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Monica Mattfeld explores the experience of horsemanship and how it defined one’s gendered and political positions within society. Men of the period used horses to transform themselves, via the image of the centaur, into something other—something powerful, awe-inspiring, and mythical. Focusing on the manuals, memoirs, satires, images, and ephemera produced by some of the period’s most influential equestrians, Mattfeld examines how the concepts and practices of horse husbandry evolved in relation to social, cultural, and political life. She looks closely at the role of horses in the world of Thomas Hobbes and William Cavendish; the changes in human social behavior and horse handling ushered in by elite riding houses such as Angelo’s Academy and Mr. Carter’s; and the public perception of equestrian endeavors, from performances at places such as Astley’s Amphitheatre to the satire of Henry William Bunbury. Throughout, Mattfeld shows how horses aided the performance of idealized masculinity among communities of riders, in turn influencing how men were perceived in regard to status, reputation, and gender. Drawing on human-animal studies, gender studies, and historical studies, Becoming Centaur offers a new account of masculinity that reaches beyond anthropocentrism to consider the role of animals in shaping man.
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Total Pages : 638 pages
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Author : Aphra Behn
Publisher : Joe Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1987955684
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (879 download)
Download or read book The Rover written by Aphra Behn and published by Joe Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magic of Naples during Carnival inspires love between a disparate group of local citizens and visiting Englishmen.
Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Total Pages : 270 pages
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004334459
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Post-Theory, Culture, Criticism written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Post-Theory, Culture, Criticism offers a collection of essays that provide provocative re-articulations of theory, culture and criticism. It contains distinguished and original work by a number of leading and emerging figures within cultural and critical theory and cultural studies who believe that all of the above is in urgent need of theoretical and practical exploration. In probing the feasibility and desirability of theory's re-articulation, the essays demonstrate that theory can only reinvent itself as worthwhile 'post-theory' through its own critical self-revaluation."--Jacket.
Author : J. Douglas Canfield
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813170039
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Tricksters & Estates written by J. Douglas Canfield and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These comedies are full of tricksters attempting to gain estates, the emblem and the reality of power in late feudal England. The tricksters appear in a number of guises, such as heroines landing their men, younger brothers seeking estates, or Cavaliers threatened with dispossession.
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Total Pages : 560 pages
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Download or read book The National Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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Total Pages : 520 pages
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Download or read book National Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Fielding
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Total Pages : 366 pages
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Download or read book The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling written by Henry Fielding and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squireathough he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth-century life, spiced with danger and intrigue, bawdy exuberance and good-natured authorial interjections, "Tom Jones" is one of the greatest and most ambitious comic novels in English literature.
Author : Laura J. Rosenthal
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501751603
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Ways of the World written by Laura J. Rosenthal and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ways of the World explores cosmopolitanism as it emerged during the Restoration and the role theater played in both memorializing and satirizing its implications and consequences. Rooted in the Stuart ambition to raise the status of England through two crucial investments—global traffic, including the slave trade, and cultural sophistication—this intensified global orientation led to the creation of global mercantile networks and to the rise of an urban British elite who drank Ethiopian coffee out of Asian porcelain at Ottoman-inspired coffeehouses. Restoration drama exposed cosmopolitanism's most embarrassing and troubling aspects, with such writers as Joseph Addison, Aphra Behn, John Dryden, and William Wycherley dramatizing the emotional and ethical dilemmas that imperial and commercial expansion brought to light. Altering standard narratives about Restoration drama, Laura J. Rosenthal shows how the reinvention of theater in this period—including technical innovations and the introduction of female performers—helped make possible performances that held the actions of the nation up for scrutiny, simultaneously indulging and ridiculing the violence and exploitation being perpetuated. In doing so, Ways of the World reveals an otherwise elusive consistency between Restoration genres (comedy, tragedy, heroic plays, and tragicomedy), disrupts conventional understandings of the rise and reception of early capitalism, and offers a fresh perspective on theatrical culture in the context of the shifting political realities of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain.
