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Restoration Theatre and Crisis

Author : Susan J. Owen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191584002
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Restoration Theatre and Crisis written by Susan J. Owen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1996-11-14 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restoration Theatre and Crisis is a seminal study of the drama of the Restoration, in particular that of the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis. This was a time of unprecedented political partisanship in the theatre. This book cosniders all the known plays of this period, including works by Dryden and Behn, in their historical context. It examines the complex ways in which the drama both reflected and intervened in the political process, at a time when the crisis fractured an already fragile post-interregnum consensus, and modern party political methods first began to develop. Susan Owen discusses the ways in which Tory and Whig playwrights engaged in dramatic dialogue, deliberately commenting on and revising each other's themes and topics. The book also explores the arena of sexual politics, examining the political significance of themes such as disharmony in the family, and the importance of rape as a dramatic signifier of monstrosity associated with rebellion by the Tories and tyranny and popery by the Whigs. Restoration Theatre and Crisis considers the use of sexuality as a political discourse, and ways in which ideas about libertinism and constructions of masculinity and femininity intersect with political concerns in the drama. Thus the book bridges the gap between `gender-blind' political accounts and studies which have focused on gender themes in the drama in isolation from party politics.

Politics and Theater

Author : Sheryl Kroen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520924383
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Politics and Theater written by Sheryl Kroen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-09-04 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moliére's anticlerical comedy Tartuffe is the unique prism through which Sheryl Kroen views postrevolutionary France in the years of the Restoration. Following the lead of the French men and women who turned to this play in the 1820s to make sense of their world, Kroen exposes the crisis of legitimacy defining the regime in these years and demonstrates how the people of the time made steps toward a democratic resolution to this crisis. Moving from the town squares, where state and ecclesiastical officials orchestrated their public spectacles in favor of the monarchy, to the theaters, where the French used Tartuffe to mock the restored monarch and the church, this cultural history of the Restoration offers a rich and colorful portrait of a period in which critical legacies of the revolutionary period were played out and cemented. While most historians have characterized the Restoration as a period of reaction and reversal, Kroen offers convincing evidence that the Restoration was a critical bridge between the emerging practices of the Old Regime, the Revolution, and the post-1830 politics of protest. She re-creates the atmosphere of Restoration France and at the same time brings major nineteenth-century themes into focus: memory and commemoration, public and private spheres, politics and religion, anticlericalism, and the formation of democratic ideologies and practices.

Perspectives on Restoration Drama

Author : Susan J. Owen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719049675
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Restoration Drama written by Susan J. Owen and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces students to drama from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the early 18th Century. Susan Owen offers representative coverage of new forms of drama in this period, and of ways in which old forms are altered. Her study covers heroic drama, comedy, tragedy, tragi-comedy, and Shakespeare adaptations, by focusing on specific 'dramatic highlights' and giving close reading of particular plays.

The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre

Author : Deborah Payne Fisk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521588126
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre written by Deborah Payne Fisk and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen specially commissioned essays provide essential information about staging, playwrights, themes and genres in the drama of the Restoration.

A Companion to Restoration Drama

Author : Susan J. Owen
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781405176101
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Restoration Drama written by Susan J. Owen and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion illustrates the vitality and diversity of dramatic work 1660 to 1710. Twenty-five essays by leading scholars in the field bring together the best recent insights into the full range of dramatic practice and innovation at the time. Introduces readers to the recent boom in scholarship that has revitalised Restoration drama Explores historical and cultural contexts, genres of Restoration drama, and key dramatists, among them Dryden and Behn

Restoration Theatre and Crisis

Author : Susan J. Owen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Restoration Theatre and Crisis written by Susan J. Owen and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Business of English Restoration Theatre, 1660–1700

Author : Deborah C. Payne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009398210
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Business of English Restoration Theatre, 1660–1700 written by Deborah C. Payne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deborah C. Payne explores how the duopoly of 1660 impacted company practices, stagecraft, the box office, and actors and writers.

Heroes and States

Author : J. Douglas Canfield
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813193915
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Heroes and States written by J. Douglas Canfield and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand the cultural history of England during the Restoration, one need look no further than the theater, which was attended by the gentry as well as by members of the middle and lower classes. The theater of this period embodied the values, meanings, and power relations of Restoration England. In Heroes and States, Douglas Canfield argues that drama not only represents but actually helps constitute the value and belief systems of an entire culture. Heroes and States completes Canfield's two-volume cultural history of Restoration drama, begun in Tricksters and Estates: On the Ideology of Restoration Comedy. In this second volume Canfield shows how Restoration playwrights attempted to rein scribe late-feudal aristocratic ideology after the English Civil War. In the serious drama of the period, conflict is between noble heroes, upon whom states are built, and transgressors of the established order—tyrants, traitors, usurpers, rapists, and atheists. Canfield considers several sub genres of tragedy. He argues that most of these sub genres reaffirm the older ideology after testing it in the fires of conflict. Tragical satire, on the other hand, the most subversive of these sub genres, exposes the failure of the ruling class to live up to its own codes and, in some cases, the absurdity of the codes themselves. Canfield also finds playwrights struggling with issues of race and colonialism. He uses the work of modern theorists such as Bakhtin, Girard, Kristeva, Derrida, Althusser, Williams, and Eagleton to illuminate aspects of his inquiries. Restoration tragedy stands on the cusp of a cultural transition from a late feudal to an early bourgeois ideology, and the issues and themes addressed in the theater validate the culture and politics of seventeenth-century England.

Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater

Author : Diana Solomon
Publisher : University of Delaware
ISBN 13 : 1611494230
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater written by Diana Solomon and published by University of Delaware. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a taxonomy of prologues and epilogues with a corresponding appendix, and demonstrates through case studies of Anne Bracegirdle and Anne Oldfield how the study of prologues and epilogues enriches Restoration theater scholarship.

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192690892
Total Pages : 801 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Shakespeare's Rise to Cultural Prominence

Author : Emma Depledge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108427103
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Rise to Cultural Prominence written by Emma Depledge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the Exclusion Crisis of 1678-82 should be considered the watershed moment in Shakespeare's authorial afterlife.

The Critical Fortunes of Aphra Behn

Author : Janet Todd
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571131652
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book The Critical Fortunes of Aphra Behn written by Janet Todd and published by Camden House. This book was released on 1998 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study of the posthumous life of Aphra Behn, the extraordinary vicissitudes of her critical reception, and the personal vilifications of her reputation through three centuries. Beginning with the reception of Behn's work during her lifetime, which she herself helped to orchestrate by performing herself as a seductive woman, a beleaguered lady writer, and a serious intellectual, among other roles, the work ends with the late 20th-century reception of Behn, when the interest in gender, race, and class has made of her almost a postmodern writer. In the 17th century she was seen as a playwright of sexy and propagandist comedies, and attacked by those who disapproved her supposedly unfeminine stance and her royalist politics. Later, as the Restoration period itself fell into disrepute, Behn's plays were denigrated along with those of her fellow men, but greater opprobrium fell on her as a woman, because in the 19th century it was felt that a female writer should have higher morals than a man. During this period, Behn's reputation was exceedingly low, while her short story Oroonoko gained acclaim, freed from any association with its author or her supposedly squalid times. In the 18th and 19th centuries Oroonoko moved from being viewed as political commentary and heroic romance to a sentimental tale of doomed love and then an abolitionist text. In the early twentieth century it was hailed as one of the earliest realist texts, part of the great English ascent into the novel. JANET TODD is professor of English at the University of East Anglia

Restoration Comedy

Author : Edward Burns
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349187607
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Restoration Comedy written by Edward Burns and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-07-28 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Stuart Women Playwrights, 1613–1713

Author : Pilar Cuder-Dominguez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317048997
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Stuart Women Playwrights, 1613–1713 written by Pilar Cuder-Dominguez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the field of seventeenth-century English drama, women participated not only as spectators or readers, but more and more as patronesses, as playwrights, and later on as actresses and even as managers. This study examines English women writers' tragedies and tragicomedies in the seventeenth century, specifically between 1613 and 1713, which represent the publication dates of the first original tragedy (Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam) and the last one (Anne Finch's Aristomenes) written by a Stuart woman playwright. Through this one-hundred year period, major changes in dramatic form and ideology are traced in women's tragedies and tragicomedies. In examining the whole of the century from a gender perspective, this project breaks away from conventional approaches to the subject, which tend to establish an unbridgeable gap between the early Stuart period and the Restoration. All in all, this study represents a major overhaul of current theories of the evolution of English drama as well as offering an unprecedented reconstruction of the genealogy of seventeenth-century English women playwrights.

Performing Libertinism in Charles II's Court

Author : J. Webster
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403980284
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Performing Libertinism in Charles II's Court written by J. Webster and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-08-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing Libertinism in Charles II's Court examines the performative nature of Restoration libertinism through reports of libertine activities and texts of libertine plays within the context of the fraternization between George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Sir Charles Sedley, Sir George Etherege, and William Wycherley. Webster argues that libertines, both real and imagined, performed traditionally secretive acts, including excessive drinking, sex, sedition, and sacrilege, in the public sphere. This eruption of the private into the public challenged a Stuart ideology that distinguished between the nation's public life and the king's and his subjects' private consciences.

The Horror Plays of the English Restoration

Author : Anne Hermanson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317028546
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Horror Plays of the English Restoration written by Anne Hermanson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A decade after the Restoration of Charles II, a disturbing group of tragedies, dubbed by modern critics the horror or the blood-and-torture villain tragedies, burst onto the London stage. Ten years later they were gone - absorbed into the partisan frenzy which enveloped the theatre at the height of the Exclusion Crisis. Despite burgeoning interest, until now there has been no full investigation into why these deeply unsettling plays were written when they were and why they so fascinated audiences for the period that they held the stage. The author’s contention is that the genre of horror gains its popularity at times of social dislocation. It reflects deep schisms in society, and English society was profoundly unsettled and in a (delayed) state of shock from years of social upheaval and civil conflict. Through recurrent images of monstrosity, madness, venereal disease, incest and atheism, Hermanson argues that the horror dramatists trope deep-seated and unresolved anxieties - engaging profoundly with contemporary discourse by abreacting the conspiratorial climate of suspicion and fear. Some go as far as to question unequivocally the moral and political value of monarchy, vilifying the office of kingship and pushing ideas of atheism further than in any drama produced since Seneca. This study marks the first comprehensive investigation of these macabre tragedies in which playwrights such as Nathaniel Lee, Thomas Shadwell, Elkanah Settle, Thomas Otway and the Earl of Rochester take their audience on an exploration of human iniquity, thrusting them into an examination of man’s relationship to God, power, justice and evil.

The Politics of Rape

Author : Jennifer L. Airey
Publisher : University of Delaware
ISBN 13 : 1611494052
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Rape written by Jennifer L. Airey and published by University of Delaware. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and concluding with reactions to the accession of William and Mary, The Politics of Rape is the first full-length study to examine theatrical representations of sexual violence in the latter-half of the seventeenth century.