Three Restoration Comedies

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 : Gamini Salgado
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Restoration Comedies written by Gamini Salgado and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 365 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.

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 : J. Douglas Canfield
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813189659
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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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 : Frank J. Morlock
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434443248
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : William Congreve
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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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:

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.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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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:

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031522095
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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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: