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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 Three Restoration Comedies by : Gāmini Salgādo
Download or read book Three Restoration Comedies written by Gāmini Salgādo and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1968 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 2007-10-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised reprint of this classic drama text with the addition of anew section on Recent Stage History and Critical Interpretation.
Book Synopsis Tricksters and Estates by : J. Douglas Canfield
Download or read book Tricksters and Estates written by J. Douglas Canfield and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the Renaissance was the Golden Age of English comedy, the Restoration was the Silver. 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. The hybrid nature of these plays has long posed problems for critics, and few studies have attempted to deal with their diversity in a comprehensive way. Now one of the leading scholars of Restoration drama offers a cultural history of the period's comedy that puts the plays in perspective and reveals the ideological function they performed in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century. To explain this function, J. Douglas Canfield groups the plays into three categories: social comedy, which underwrites Stuart ideology; subversive comedy, which undercuts it; and comical satire, which challenges it as fundamentally immoral or amoral. Through play-by-play analysis, he demonstrates how most of the comedies support the ideology of the Stuart monarchs and the aristocracy, upholding what they regarded as their natural right to rule because of an innate superiority over all other classes. A significant minority of comedies, however, reveal cracks in class solidarity, portray witty heroines who inhabit the margins of society, or give voice to folk tricksters who embody a democratic force nearly capable of overwhelming class hierarchy. A smaller yet but still significant minority end in no resolution, no restoration, but, at their most radical, playfully portray Stuart ideology as empty rhetoric. Tricksters and Estates is a truly comprehensive work, offering serious critical readings of many plays that have never before received close attention and fresh insights into more familiar works. By juxtaposing the comedies of such lesser-known playwrights as Orrery, Lacy, and Rawlins with those of more familiar figures like Behn, Wycherley, and Dryden, the author invites a greater appreciation than has previously been possible of the meaning and function of Restoration comedy. This intelligent and wide-ranging study promises is a standard work in its field.
Book Synopsis Shadwell's Restoration Comedy: A Play in Three Acts by : Frank J. Morlock
Download or read book Shadwell's Restoration Comedy: A Play in Three Acts written by Frank J. Morlock and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Shadwell (1642-1692) wrote a number of comic plays during his life. His drama featured broadly-based, coarse humor, and is filled with crude-but-vibrant characters drawn from the streets of Restoration London, individuals such as sharpers, whores, and eccentrics. His work is essentially plotless, but reeks with the odor of real people. Frank J. Morlock has created a composite drama (with plot!) from Shadwell's many works, but particularly employing pieces of The Woman Captain, The Squire of Alsatia, The Sullen Lovers, and The Virtuoso. The result is an hilarious masterpiece that's as timeless and as entertaining as the best of modern comedy.
Book Synopsis Three Restoration Comedies by : G. G. Falle
Download or read book Three Restoration Comedies written by G. G. Falle and published by Macmillan of Canada. This book was released on 1964 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Three Restoration Comedies by : William Congreve
Download or read book Three Restoration Comedies written by William Congreve and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Restoration Comedy in Performance by : J. L. Styan
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.
Book Synopsis Three Restoration Comedies : The Man of Mode ; The Country Wife ; Love for Love by :
Download or read book Three Restoration Comedies : The Man of Mode ; The Country Wife ; Love for Love written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Staging Restoration Comedy by : David Roberts
Download or read book Staging Restoration Comedy written by David Roberts and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Restoration Comedies: Discussion of Love and Marriage by : Anke Werckmeister
Download or read book Restoration Comedies: Discussion of Love and Marriage written by Anke Werckmeister and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, Free University of Berlin (Institut für Englische Philologie), course: Restoration Comedies, language: English, abstract: Two Restoration Comedies that I want to discuss are William Wycherley’s The Country Wife (1675) and William Congreve’s Love for Love (1695). Both plays were written in a time when libertinism prevailed and male stereotypes like rakes and fops and female stereotypes like wives and virgins were popular. Needless to say, both plays not only deal with Restoration society but also with its problems, concerns, and difficulties at the time. And especially, Love for Love, which was written fairly at the end of the Restoration era, still is a conventional play in terms of being libertine-satirical but it already includes some features of sentimentalism. So it is not a postponement from libertinism to sentimentalism yet, but I want to argue in this essay that both plays are rather conventional libertine Restoration plays which include features of early sentimentalism.
Book Synopsis Four Great Restoration Comedies by : William Wycherley
Download or read book Four Great Restoration Comedies written by William Wycherley and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy classics that defined a new era in drama: The Country Wife by William Wycherley; The Man of Mode by Sir George Etheredge; The Rover by Aphra Behn; and The Relapse by Sir John Vanbrugh.
Book Synopsis The comical revenge; or, Love in a tub [a comedy, by sir G. Etherege]. by : George Etherege
Download or read book The comical revenge; or, Love in a tub [a comedy, by sir G. Etherege]. written by George Etherege and published by . This book was released on 1669 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 181 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.
Book Synopsis Three Restoration Comedies by : William Wycherley
Download or read book Three Restoration Comedies written by William Wycherley and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Restoration Comedies: The Parsons Wedding by : Montague Summers
Download or read book Restoration Comedies: The Parsons Wedding written by Montague Summers and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Restoration Comedies written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: