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Book Synopsis The Restoration Fop by : Andrew P. Williams
Download or read book The Restoration Fop written by Andrew P. Williams and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study illustrates the social, cultural and sexual variables which went into the fop's comic characterization, as well as acting as a model for individual character analysis on the Restoration stage. The critical methodology employed in analyzing the fop's comic function can be utilized within a range of dramatic studies not exclusively focused on the Restoration. Through an examination of a range of both canonical and lesser known dramatic comedies, the text shows that issues of sexuality, male effeminancy and social prejudice were indelibly connected with the fop."
Book Synopsis The Intended Gallant a Study of the Fop on the Restoration Stage by : George L. Anton
Download or read book The Intended Gallant a Study of the Fop on the Restoration Stage written by George L. Anton and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Fop and Fashion in Restoration Comedy by : William Russell Taliaferro
Download or read book The Fop and Fashion in Restoration Comedy written by William Russell Taliaferro and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Study of the Fop in Restoration Drama by : Katherine Elizabeth Moroney
Download or read book A Study of the Fop in Restoration Drama written by Katherine Elizabeth Moroney and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Men of Mode written by Andrew P. Williams and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Man of Mode by : Sir George Etherege
Download or read book The Man of Mode written by Sir George Etherege and published by . This book was released on 1720 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Seventeenth Century Wit and Fop by : Thomas Ewing Ferguson
Download or read book The Seventeenth Century Wit and Fop written by Thomas Ewing Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There are two classes of critics of Restoration comedy, those who see it from the point of view of ethics, and those who see it from the point of view of art. The first of these asks, How bad or how immoral is the society reflected in the comedy? The other inquires, How faithfully and with what power has the dramatist drawn the picture of society? Widely divergent traditions of criticism, as indicated in my introduction, have grown out of these apparently conflicting points of view. Having found no satisfactory history of the social life of the period, I have examined a great part of the available contemporary and secondary material that pertains to the fashionable life of London in the latter half of the seventeenth century. From numerous memoirs and diaries, essays, sketches, books of travel, and histories I have gathered material in an attempt to reconstruct the view of the fashionable life of the period. From these fragmentary sources, I have given a new emphasis to social conditions, and I here present a new sketch of the life of London, especially in the reign of Charles II, as an essential setting for the clear understanding of my thesis, that the antagonism between the wit and the fop, types prominent in actual life, is the main theme of the comedy of the Restoration. I have tried to present this sketch from the point of view of the late seventeenth century, and therefore of the dramatists themselves, rather than from the point of view of the twentieth century. Until recently not a great many works have been produced on the drama of the Restoration. Leigh Hunt, Macaulay, and Dr. Johnson have written notable monographs on the period. Hazlitt and Lamb are discerning critics of the theater. W. C. Ward, Edmund Gosse, G. S. Street, and A. W. Verity have produced valuable historical and critical works pertaining to certain individuals, particularly Etherege, Wycherley, Congreve, and Vanbrugh. The more notable general works of recent date are those of Palmer, Nettleton, Nicoll, and Dobree. In the field of scholarship particularly the work of Professor Bernbaum is well-known, and more recent are the studies of Krutch, Perry, and Lynch. In the present study, taking the point of view that drama is a literature of contrasts, and that the dramatist seeks such contrasts as will reveal human life as it is lived, or as he thinks or fancies it is lived, in his generation, I have in mind, as stated later, to write a unified social history of the fashionable life on which Restoration comedy was founded, and to show how the emergence of the wit and the fop from their places in society onto the stage was natural and inevitable"--Leaves iii-v
Book Synopsis The Man of Mode by : George Etherege
Download or read book The Man of Mode written by George Etherege and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably the most perfectly poised of Restoration wit comedies, The Man of Mode is a finished exercise in dramatic sprezzatura, or nonchalance, matching the beguiling 'easiness' and 'complaisance' of its central character. The play's imaginative brilliance depends upon its author's ability to hint at the dark abyss of passion and emotional violence at whose edge the modish denizens of the town perform their graceful ballet. Its seemingly casual construction and wanton breaches of comic decorum mask a ferocious artistic control designed to upset the complacency of the audience's moral, social and aesthetic assumptions by luring them into sympathy for a character whose dangerous 'wildness' they ought to deplore. It is at once among the funniest and the most unsettling of comedies in English. The full, modernized play text is accompanied by incisive commentary notes, while its engaging introduction unpacks the complexity of the Restoration's political and theatrical context, analyses the play's performance history (including Nicholas Hytner's 2007 modern-dress version) and demonstrates Etherege's linguistic finesse. This edition is supplemented by a plot summary and an annotated bibliography. The New Mermaids plays offer: · Modernized versions of the play text edited to the highest textual standards · Fully annotated student editions with obscure words explained and critical, contextual and staging insight provided on each page · Full Introductions analyzing context, themes, author background and stage history
Book Synopsis Three Restoration Comedies by : George Etherege
Download or read book Three Restoration Comedies written by George Etherege and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-11-24 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the restoration of King Charles II to the British throne in 1660, dramatists experienced new freedom in an age that broke from the strict morality of puritan rule and in which elegance and wit became the chief virtues. Irreverent, licentious and cynical, the three plays collected here hold up a mirror to this dazzling era and satirize the gulf between appearances and reality. In Etherege's The Man of Mode (1676), the womanizing Dorimant meets his match when he falls in love with the unpretentious Harriet, while Wycherley's The Country Wife (c. 1675) depicts the rakish Horner who fakes impotence to fool trusting husbands into giving him easy access to their wives. And in Congreve's Love for Love (1695), the extravagant Valentine can only win his beloved Angelica if he loses his inheritance.
Book Synopsis The Man of Mode by : George Etherege
Download or read book The Man of Mode written by George Etherege and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verbal brilliance, urbane sophistication and sexual conquest are the measures of success for the fashionable set who watched themselves being represented on the Restoration stage. Yet idealisation and satire, as this edition of Etherege's masterpiece shows, are flip sides of the same coin, and the play betrays deep anxieties about ridicule and social failure. Any London beau would emulate Dorimant, the unconscionable rake who loves 'em and leaves 'em, but he would also secretly fear that he in fact resembled Sir Fopling Flutter, the model of all Restoration fops, in his vanity and affectation. The women fare no better, being offered for identification Dorimant's discarded mistress Loveit, scheming for revenge, or the beautiful but hard-headed Harriet, who dares Dorimant to woo her in the country, for 'I know all beyond Hyde Park is a desert to you and that no gallantry can draw you farther'.
Book Synopsis Eighteenth-Century Characters by : Elaine M. McGirr
Download or read book Eighteenth-Century Characters written by Elaine M. McGirr and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-Century Characters offers a concise introduction to the eighteenth century, using characters as its starting point. Elaine M. McGirr presents contextualized readings of stock characters from canonical and popular literature, such as: - The rake and the fop - The country gentleman - The good woman - The coquette and the prude - The country maid and the town lady - The Catholic, the Protestant and the British Other. Each chapter explores how a character's significance and role changes over the century, illustrating and explaining radical shifts in taste, ideology and style. Also featuring illustrations, a Chronology and a helpful Bibliography and Further Reading section, this essential guide will provide students with the necessary background to understand the period's literature and to embark on further study.
Download or read book Time in Fashion written by Caroline Evans and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few phenomena embody the notion of time as well as fashion. Fast-moving and rooted in the 'now', it's constantly creating its own past through the process of rapid style change. Uniquely poised between the past and the future, fashion's relationship with time is unorthodox. Rather than considering time in the conventional sense, this anthology explores three alternative ways to think about fashion and time: the first identifies the seasonal nature of fashion as an industry, and shows how this has impacted on workers and wearers alike. The second looks at fashion design as a ceaseless process of adaptation, reconstruction and recombination of motifs, in which nostalgia and revivals play their part. The third construes fashion's 'imaginary', with its capacity for fantasy and myth-making, as a form of alternate history that asks 'what if?' Within this framework, key classic texts are juxtaposed with lesser known ones, in an interdisciplinary approach that includes philosophy, history, literature, media and fashion design, ranging from the 18th century to the present. It will be of interest to anyone wishing to understand one of the most complex yet inescapable aspects of fashion, its relationship to time, and will be a critical resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the humanities and all those interested in fashion in all its creative, commercial and cultural aspects.
Book Synopsis Ways of the World by : Laura J. Rosenthal
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.
Book Synopsis The Man of Mode by : George Etherege
Download or read book The Man of Mode written by George Etherege and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably the most perfectly poised of Restoration wit comedies, The Man of Mode is a finished exercise in dramatic sprezzatura, or nonchalance, matching the beguiling 'easiness' and 'complaisance' of its central character. The play's imaginative brilliance depends upon its author's ability to hint at the dark abyss of passion and emotional violence at whose edge the modish denizens of the town perform their graceful ballet. Its seemingly casual construction and wanton breaches of comic decorum mask a ferocious artistic control designed to upset the complacency of the audience's moral, social and aesthetic assumptions by luring them into sympathy for a character whose dangerous 'wildness' they ought to deplore. It is at once among the funniest and the most unsettling of comedies in English. The full, modernized play text is accompanied by incisive commentary notes, while its engaging introduction unpacks the complexity of the Restoration's political and theatrical context, analyses the play's performance history (including Nicholas Hytner's 2007 modern-dress version) and demonstrates Etherege's linguistic finesse. This edition is supplemented by a plot summary and an annotated bibliography. The New Mermaids plays offer: · Modernized versions of the play text edited to the highest textual standards · Fully annotated student editions with obscure words explained and critical, contextual and staging insight provided on each page · Full Introductions analyzing context, themes, author background and stage history
Book Synopsis Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel by : David H. Richter
Download or read book Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel written by David H. Richter and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel is a lively exploration of the evolution of the English novel from 1688-1815. A range of major works and authors are discussed along with important developments in the genre, and the impact of novels on society at the time. The text begins with a discussion of the “rise of the novel” in the long eighteenth century and various theories about the economic, social, and ideological changes that caused it. Subsequent chapters examine ten particular novels, from Oroonoko and Moll Flanders to Tom Jones and Emma, using each one to introduce and discuss different rhetorical theories of narrative. The way in which books developed and changed during this period, breaking new ground, and influencing later developments is also discussed, along with key themes such as the representation of gender, class, and nationality. The final chapter explores how this literary form became a force for social and ideological change by the end of the period. Written by a highly experienced scholar of English literature, this engaging textbook guides readers through the intricacies of a transformational period for the novel.
Book Synopsis The Man of Mode, Or, Sr. Fopling Flutter. A Comedy: by Sir George Etherege by : George Sir Etheredge
Download or read book The Man of Mode, Or, Sr. Fopling Flutter. A Comedy: by Sir George Etherege written by George Sir Etheredge and published by . This book was released on 1696 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catastrophic Bliss by : Myronn Hardy
Download or read book Catastrophic Bliss written by Myronn Hardy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of poetry discusses themes such as war, place, love, and history.
