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Total Pages : 334 pages
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Download or read book Earlier Stuart drama. Comedy of the restoration. Comedy of the eighteenth century written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 76 pages
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Download or read book Readings from the Old English Dramatists: Earlier Stuart drama. Comedy of the restoration. Comedy of the eighteenth century written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780343535544
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Readings from the Old English Dramatists written by Anonymous and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Peggy Thompson
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1611483727
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy written by Peggy Thompson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coyness and Crime examines the extraordinary focus on feminine coyness in forty English comedies by ten diverse playwrights of the late seventeenth-century. In contexts ranging from reaffirmations of church and king to emerging interests in liberty and novelty, these plays consistently reveal women caught in an ironic and nearly intractable convergence of objectification and culpability that allows them little innocent sexual agency; this is both the source and the legacy of coyness in Restoration comedy.
Author : Richard W. Bevis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317870921
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book English Drama written by Richard W. Bevis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What were the causes of Restoration drama's licentiousness? How did the elegantly-turned comedy of Congreve become the pointed satire of Fielding? And how did Sheridan and Goldsmith reshape the materials they inherited? In the first account of the entire period for more than a decade, Richard Bevis argues that none of these questions can be answered without an understanding of Augustan and Georgian history. The years between 1660 and 1789 saw considerable political and social upheaval, which is reflected in the eclectic array of dramatic forms that is Georgian theatre's essential characteristic.
Author : Brian Corman
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1460402715
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy written by Brian Corman and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2013-01-21 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten plays in this new collection show both the continuity and the changes in comedy over the course of the Restoration and eighteenth century. Each play includes its original prologue and epilogue, as well as an historical introduction and full annotation. The editor’s Introduction provides a rich historical and literary context for the plays’ composition and production. A glossary of frequently used words likely to be unfamiliar to general readers is also included.
Author : J. Douglas Canfield
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813189659
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
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.
Author : Mark S. Dawson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521848091
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Gentility and the Comic Theatre of Late Stuart London written by Mark S. Dawson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines how gentility was portrayed at London's theatres during the early modern era.
Author : George Winchester Stone
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809307432
Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book British Dramatists from Dryden to Sheridan written by George Winchester Stone and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representative selections from Restoration and eighteenth-century drama, comedy, satire, tragedy, and farce are prefaced by descriptions of the theaters, acting styles, methods of play production, and audiences.
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Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Readings from the Old English Dramatists: Miracle to masque. Predecessors of Shakespeare. Minor Elizabethan dramatists written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Leggatt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134657897
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book English Stage Comedy 1490-1990 written by Alexander Leggatt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2004. English stage comedy has weathered centuries of social and theatrical change. How did it survive? English Stage Comedy 1490–1990 is a unique and beautifully written study of the comedy of the English stage from the Tudor period to the late twentieth century. Organized thematically, it shows how this remarkably enduring genre has dealt with the tensions of social life, using its conventions as tools for social inquiry. Through an examination of comedy Alexander Leggatt demonstrates that an approach through genre, neglected in recent criticism, can have much to say about our current concerns with the relations between literature and society. English Stage Comedy 1490–1990 surveys five centuries of classic comic drama, focusing on major playwrights such as: Shakespeare, Jonson, Etherege, Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Wilde, Shaw, Coward, Orton, Ayckbourn and many lesser-known figures.
Author : Gunda Windmüller
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3899719689
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Rushing Into Floods written by Gunda Windmüller and published by V&R unipress GmbH. This book was released on 2012 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic representation of maritime spaces, characters and plots in Restoration and early eighteenth-century English theatres served as a crucial discursive negotiation of a burgeoning empire. This study focuses on staging the sea in a period of growing maritime, commercial and colonial activity, a time when the prominence of the sea and shipping was firmly established in the very fabric of English life. As theatres were re-established after the Restoration, playhouses soon became very visible spaces of cultural activity and important locales for staging cultural contact and conflict. Plays staging the sea can be read as central in representing the budding maritime empire to metropolitan audiences, as well as negotiating political power and knowledge about the other. The study explores well-known plays by authors such as Aphra Behn and William Wycherley alongside a host of more obscure plays by authors such as Edward Ravenscroft and Charles Gildon as cultural performances for negotiating cultural identity and difference in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Author : S. Douglas Olson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 161451125X
Total Pages : 1098 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Ancient Comedy and Reception written by S. Douglas Olson and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging collection, consisting of 50 essays by leading international scholars in a variety of fields, provides an overview of the reception history of a major literary genre from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day. Section I considers how the 5th- and 4th-century Athenian comic poets defined themselves and their plays, especially in relation to other major literary forms. It then moves on to the Roman world and to the reception of Greek comedy there in art and literature. Section II deals with the European reception of Greek and Roman comedy in the Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern periods, and with the European stage tradition of comic theater more generally. Section III treats the handling of Greco-Roman comedy in the modern world, with attention not just to literary translations and stage-productions, but to more modern media such as radio and film. The collection will be of interest to students of ancient comedy as well as to all those concerned with how literary and theatrical traditions are passed on from one time and place to another, and adapted to meet local conditions and concerns.
Author : Fredric M. Litto
Publisher : Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book American Dissertations on the Drama and the Theatre written by Fredric M. Litto and published by Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Kraft
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317064712
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films written by Elizabeth Kraft and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films, Elizabeth Kraft brings the canon of Restoration comedy into the conversation initiated by Stanley Cavell in his book Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Before there could be imagined remarriages of the sort Cavell documents, there had to be imagined marriages of equality. Such imagined marriages were first mapped out on the Restoration stage by witty pairs such as Harriet and Dorimant, Millamant and Mirabell, and Alithea and Harcourt who are precursors of the central couples in films such as Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, and The Lady Eve. In considering the Restoration comedy canon in one-on-one discourse with the Hollywood remarriage comedy canon, Kraft demonstrates the indebtedness of the twentieth-century films to the Restoration dramatic texts-and the philosophical richness of both canons as they explore the nature and significance of marriage as pursuit of moral perfectionism. Her book will be of interest to specialists in Restoration drama and film scholars.
Author : Paulina Kewes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873282192
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (821 download)
Download or read book The Uses of History in Early Modern England written by Paulina Kewes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Charles Mills Gayley
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Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Representative English Comedies written by Charles Mills Gayley and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
