Author: Sir Charles SedleyPublisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Sir Charles Sedley
Author: Sir Charles SedleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Sir Charles Sedley
Author: Charles SedleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Sir Charles Sedley
Author: Sir Charles Sedley (Bart)Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Sir Charles Sedley: Bellamira, or The mistress. An essay on entertainments. Appendix: Works ascribed to Sedley on doubtful authority. The grumbler, a comedy of three acts: Poems and translations; The pastorals of Virgil. Notes. Bibliography of works by or ascribed to Sir Charles Sedley (p. 235-261)
Author: Sir Charles SedleyPublisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Annals of English Drama, 975-1700
Author: Alfred HarbagePublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415010993
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
An analytical record of all plays, extinct or lost, chronologically arranged and indexed by authors, titles and dramatic companies.
Thomas Shadwell's Bury-Fair
Author: John C. RossPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042957505X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
First published in 1995, Ross provides a critical edition of Thomas Shadwell’s Bury Fair.
Outward Appearances
Author: Will PritchardPublisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838756881
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Elucidates early modern attitudes toward women's public display. This title presents a cultural study that draws on a range of literary and non-literary texts from 1650-1700 to revisit the sites where women appeared most prominently: the playhouse, the park, and the New Exchange (a shopping arcade in the Strand).
Comedy of Habit
Author: WilkinsonPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004623337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Cultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Theater
Author: Deborah Payne FiskPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820337897
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Ranging in approach from feminist to historicist, the eleven essays in this collection share the culturalist premise that the drama of late Stuart and early Georgian England helped to constitute the dominant ideology of the period. The contributors' varied approaches allow for the reconsideration of libertinism, the politics of sexual desire, and other classic issues, as well as such newer concerns as the social construction of the first English actresses, empiricism as an emergent epistemological discourse, cultural anxiety about novelty and repetition, and shifting tropes of inherent worth. By reading well-known works in unexpected ways and focusing on less frequently studied dramatists, from Sedley, Motteux, Pix, and Behn to Manley, Trotter, and Shadwell, the contributors also test the limits of the canon. In addition, they suggest that earlier critical perceptions, perhaps even more than the “innate worth” of the plays, determined the shape of the canon. These essays present a different image of Restoration and eighteenth-century theater, one that reveals how the drama was a site as important for the negotiation of cultural meaning as were novels and verse satires.
All for Love
Author: John DrydenPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408143852
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
All for Love or, The World Well Lost is John Dryden's 1677 adaptation of the tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra into a neo-classical quintet with supporting voices: After Cleopatra's desertion of Antony at the battle of Actium, not only his wife Octavia but also his general Ventidius and his friend Dolabella strive to win him over to their side. Antony, torn between the claims of duty, friendship, dignity and love, despairs when he hears the rumour of Cleopatra's death, which is not, as in Shakespeare's version, spread by the queen herself but by her deceitful eunuch. This edition includes Dryden's dedication of the play to the Earl of Danby and his preface, in which he defends against French neo-classicist strictures the liberties he took with his sources; it further discusses the play's austere power in the theatre, which is unjustly considered to be inferior to Shakespeare's quite distinct version of the story.