Author: Aphra BehnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
The Roundheads; Or, the Good Old Cause, a Comedy
Author: Aphra BehnThe Roundheads; or, The good old cause, a comedy
Author: Aphra BehnNotes and Queries
Author: Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
Author: The Good Old Cause
Author: Edmund DellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136242112
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
This book examines the English revolution from 1640-1660, with particualr attenion to the social structure of England at the time.
The Reformation
Author: Joseph ArrowsmithPublisher: Edicions Universitat Barcelona
ISBN: 9788483383810
Category : Reformation
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Reformation (1673), attributed to Joseph Arrowsmith, is an amusing satire on the libertine manners of the Stuart court. A group of young men in Venice set up a society to reform sexual mores “à la mode d’Angleterre” and liberate women from the tyranny of fathers and husbands. Described by a contemporary critic as “the Reverse to the Laws of Morality and Virtue”, the play was quickly withdrawn from the stage. The comedy also offers a burlesque portrait of Poet Laureate John Dryden, poking fun at his critical opinions and dramatic production. This is the firts critical edition of the play. The editors place it in its social and cultural context and present a fully annotated text, which enables today’s reader to enjoy and understand Arrowsmith’s lively picture of Restoration life.
Royal & Loyal Sufferers
Author: Cecil DeedesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fine bindings |x Specimens
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192690892
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 801
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature
Author: Matthew C. AugustinePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192690884
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 801
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature begins by asking if there was a distinctive literature of the Restoration. For a long time, the answer seemed obvious: heroic drama, libertine comedy, scandalous lyrics, and the short but brilliant career of John Wilmot, earl of Rochester. Could there be an age when the coincidence of literary culture and political rule were any more obvious? But as this Handbook will remind us, some of the most wonderful literature of this Restoration came from writers who had lived across the decades of turbulence and into an age when the Stuart kings returned, when the Church and House of Lords were restored, a world made safe for bishops and for the memory of divine right rule. Of course, these returns and restorations did not meet with uniform celebration. John Milton wrote his great epic poems not in quiet submission but in a kind of resistance to the dominant culture of the 1660s, and Andrew Marvell produced his most brilliant satiric verse by holding up a looking glass to court corruption and Anglican intolerance. So we begin with the most obvious conclusion: Restoration literature does and does not fit to the categories that so long defined the late Stuart age. This book explores and contests, challenges and reimagines the experience embodied by the writing of the late Stuart world and invites readers new to this world and those who have often read its literatures to the pleasures but as well to the challenges and discomforts of its texts.
Author: Aphra Behn