Author: William OxberryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The New English Drama: Bold stroke for a wife
Author: William OxberryA Bold Stroke for a Wife
Author: Susanna CentlivreA Bold Stroke for a Wife
Author: Susanna CentlivrePublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 9781551110219
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Though critics and literary historians have always had to admit that Susanna Centlivre’s comedies were extremely popular, they have tended to devote themselves to a search for evidence in them of supposed deficiencies of ‘the female pen,’ and to pay as much attention to the playwright’s marriages and amorous liasons than to the plays themselves. Only in recent years has Centlivre come to be recognized quite straightforwardly as one of the most brilliant playwrights of her time. A Bold Stroke for a Wife is perhaps the finest example of Centlivre’s masterful plotting of comic intrigue. The soldier Fainwell and Anne Lovely are in love, but their path to the altar is blocked by her guardians, each of whom has a different view of what sort of husband would make the right match. Fainwell resorts to disguises of social types. The play thus provides a wide range of opportunity for Centlivre to satirize Tory respectability, religious propriety and capitalist speculative greed—and to give voice to tolerance: ‘tis liberty of choice that sweetens life.’ Yet in the end it is Centlivre’s comic muse that gives enduring life to the play as one of the most entertaining of eighteenth-century comedies.
The New English Drama
Author: William OxberryThe New English Drama: Pizarro
Author: William OxberryThe New English Drama: The critic
Author: William OxberryThe New English Drama: Blue devils
Author: William OxberryEnglish Drama
Author: Katharine Lee BatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The New English Drama, with Prefatory Remarks, Biographical Sketches, and Notes, Critical and Explanatory
Author: William OxberryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Catalog of the Theatre and Drama Collections
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description