Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Amours of William Congreve Esq.; Interspersed with Miscellanous Essays, Letters and Characters, Written by Him. Also Some Very Curious Memoirs of Mr. Dryden and His Family, with a Character of Him and His Writing, by Mr. Congreve. Compiled from Their Respective Originals, by Charles Wilson ..
Author: The Works of William Congreve
Author: William CongrevePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199297479
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
This is the first complete edition of the works of William Congreve (1670-1729), one of Britain's most important literary figures. The texts of the plays, novel, poetry, opera, and letters are presented in original spelling. The editor, D.F. McKenzie, has added his own thorough notes at the end of each volume.
...English Literature & Printing from the XVth to XVIIth Century...
Author: Maggs BrosThe Literature of the Restoration
Author: Percy John DobellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
English Literature & Printing from the XVth to XVIIIth Century
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Fatal Desire
Author: Jean I. MarsdenPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501728520
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Informed by film theory and a broad historical approach, Fatal Desire examines the theatrical representation of women in England, from the Restoration to the early eighteenth century—a period when for the first time female actors could perform in public. Jean I. Marsden maintains that the feminization of serious drama during this period is tied to the cultural function of theater. Women served as symbols of both domestic and imperial propriety, and so Marsden links the representation of women on the stage to the social context in which the plays appeared and to the moral and often political lessons they offered the audience. The witty heroines of comedies were usually absorbed into the social fabric by marrying similarly lighthearted gentlemen, but the heroines of tragedy suffered for their sins, real or perceived. That suffering served the dual purpose of titillating and educating the theater audience. Marsden discusses such plays as William Wycherley's Plain Dealer (1676), John Vanbrugh's Provoked Wife (1697), Thomas Otway's Orphan (1680), Thomas Southerne's Fatal Marriage (1694), and William Congreve's Mourning Bride (1697). The author also addresses tragedies written by three female playwrights, Mary Pix, Catharine Trotter, and Delarivier Manley, and sketches developments in tragedy during the period.
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Pickering & ChattoCatalogue
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1348
Book Description
Author: Maggs Bros