Author: Charles KnightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Biography
Author: Charles KnightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
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.
DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
Author: Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1354
Book Description
The Dictionary of National Biography, Founded in 1882 by George Smith
Author: Sir Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1408
Book Description
The Reader's Handbook of Famous Names in Fiction, Allusions, References, Proverbs, Plots, Stories, and Poems
Author: Ebenezer Cobham BrewerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Allusions
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
Book Description
A History of English Literature and of the Chief English Writers
Author: Alexander Hamilton ThompsonPublisher: London : J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Experimentation on the English Stage, 1695-1708
Author: Elisabeth J HeardPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317303431
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, British theatre saw a shift from what critics call 'Restoration' to 'sentimental' comedy. Focusing on the career of the Irish dramatist George Farquhar (1678-1707), this book argues that experimentation was the basis for this change.