Etherege And Wycherley

Author : Barbara Kachur
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137047798
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Etherege and Wycherley written by Barbara Kachur and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Etherege & Wycherley is the first book-length study devoted solely to these two leading comic dramatists of the early Restoration period. B.A. Kachur explores the major plays by George Etherege and William Wycherley within the context of the cultural, social and political changes that marked the reign of Charles II, and addresses issues such as marriage, manners, heroism, sovereignty and anxieties over class hierarchies which preoccupied late seventeenth-century England. The book provides studies of the following plays: - She Would If She Could - The Man of Mode - The Country Wife - The Plain Dealer In addition to examining the plays as cultural and historical texts, Kachur offers: - Biographical sketches detailing the dramaturgical styles of the two playwrights - An overview of Charles II's reign, including its effects on the dramatic literature of the era - A survey of Carolean theatre and drama outlining innovations in staging, and major dramatic genres - Performance histories which illuminate the ways in which twentieth-century directors have interpreted the comedies to make them accessible to modern audiences

Author : George Etherege
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141937742
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Barbara Kachur
Publisher : Palgrave
ISBN 13 : 9780333575406
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Etherege and Wycherley written by Barbara Kachur and published by Palgrave. This book was released on 2004-06-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Etherege & Wycherley is the first book-length study devoted solely to these two leading comic dramatists of the early Restoration period. B.A. Kachur explores the major plays by George Etherege and William Wycherley within the context of the cultural, social and political changes that marked the reign of Charles II, and addresses issues such as marriage, manners, heroism, sovereignty and anxieties over class hierarchies which preoccupied late seventeenth-century England. The book provides studies of the following plays: * She Would If She Could * The Man of Mode * The Country Wife * The Plain Dealer In addition to examining the plays as cultural and historical texts, Kachur offers: * biographical sketches detailing the dramaturgical styles of the two playwrights * an overview of Charles II's reign, including its effects on the dramatic literature of the era * a survey of Carolean theatre and drama outlining innovations in staging, and major dramatic genres * performance histories which illuminate the ways in which twentieth-century directors have interpreted the comedies to make them accessible to modern audiences.

Author : J. L. Styan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521274210
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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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 : William Wycherley
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486153606
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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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.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Rakes of George Etherege's and William Wycherley's Comedies of Manners: A Social and Dramaturgical Analysis Based on the Experiences of Elite Restoration Royalist Men written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rakes of George Etherege's and William Wycherley's comedies of manners: A social and dramaturgical analysis based on the experiences of elite Restoration Royalist men.

Author : Henry Ten Eyck Perry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Comic Spirit in Restoration Drama written by Henry Ten Eyck Perry and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Norman Norwood Holland
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass., Harvard U. P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Modern Comedies written by Norman Norwood Holland and published by Cambridge, Mass., Harvard U. P. This book was released on 1959 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gāmini Salgādo
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014043027X
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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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 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Etherege
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0713681934
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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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.