Author: Joseph Wood KrutchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comedy
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Comedy and Conscience After the Restoration
Author: Joseph Wood KrutchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comedy
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Comedy and Conscience After the Restoration
Author: Joseph Wood KrutchThe Comedy of the Eighteenth Century
Author: Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distri
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Comedy and Conscience After the Restoration. (Second Printing, with Additional Bibliographic Material.).
Author: Joseph Wood KrutchThree Restoration Comedies
Author: George EtheregePublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141937742
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
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.
Moral Reform in Comedy and Culture, 1696–1747
Author: Dr Aparna GollapudiPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409478793
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In the first half of the eighteenth century, a new comic plot formula dramatizing the moral reform of a flawed protagonist emerged on the English stage. The comic reform plot was not merely a generic turn towards morality or sentimentality, Aparna Gollapudi argues, but an important social mechanism for controlling and challenging political and economic changes. Gollapudi looks at reform comedies by dramatists such as Colley Cibber, Susanna Centlivre, Richard Steele, Charles Johnson, and Benjamin Hoadly in relation to emergent trends in finance capitalism, imperial nationalism, political factionalism, domestic ideology, and middling class-consciousness. Within the context of the cultural anxieties engendered by these developments, Gollapudi suggests, the reform comedies must be seen not as clichéd and moralistic productions but as responses to vital ideological shifts and cultural transvaluations that impose a reassuring moral schema on everyday conduct. Thoroughly researched and elegantly written, Gollapudi's study shows that reform comedies covered a range of contemporary concerns from party politics to domestic harmony and are crucial for understanding eighteenth-century literature and culture.
The comedy of Sir William Davenant
Author: Howard S. CollinsPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111400360
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A History of Restoration Drama 1660-1700
Author: Allardyce NicollPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Comedy of Manners
Author: Kenneth MuirPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000579204
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Originally published in 1970, this title starts with an introduction, in which Professor Muir distinguishes between the Comedy of Manners and other types of comedy and traces its origins in English and French literature, there are then chapters on the major writers – Etherege, Dryden, Wycherly, Congreve, Vanbrugh, Farquhar – and on Jeremy Collier’s attack on the immorality and profaneness of the plays. This is followed by a discussion of the reasons for the decline of comedy in the eighteenth century and an account of its revival by Sheridan and, belatedly, by Wilde. Professor Muir takes issue with a number of recent critics on the dramatic value of the plays.
Marriage-Hater Matched, The. A comedy by Thomas Durfey
Author: Manuel J. Gómez-LaraPublisher: Edicions Universitat Barcelona
ISBN: 844753829X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
When young Phoebe asks Sir Philip Freewit, the man who has got her with child, to fulfil his promise and marry her, he replies with shock: “My wife! Then I should never love thee more”. Thomas Durfey’s The Marriage-Hater Matched (1692) pokes fun at the figure of the libertine rake, which had become a favourite dramatic type with Restoration theatregoers, and forces him in the end to make up for his past recklessness. Besides the marriage-hater and the two women that vie for his affections, a remarkable gallery of secondary characters people this amusing comedy: a Frenchified lady fawning on her lap-dog, a fat clownish Dutchman laughing at his own jokes, a impertinent match-making widow obsessed with food, a peevish old-fashioned courtier, a pert lisping ingénue and two rude boobies bearing the names of Greek philosophers. This first modern critical edition offers a fully annotated text in addition to an introduction that situates the comedy in its literary and theatrical contexts. ;The editors discuss at length how Durfey drew upon successful comic modes while at the same complying with the moral values advocated by the new monarchs, William and Mary (1688-1702).