Author: Robert T. Howling
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Moral Aspects of Restoration Comedy
Author: Robert T. Howling
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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The Ethics of Restoration Comedy
Author: William F. Poller
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Languages : en
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Moral Purpose in Restoration Comedy
Author: Margaret Louise Blaine McDowell
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
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Languages : en
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The comical revenge; or, Love in a tub [a comedy, by sir G. Etherege].
Author: George Etherege
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Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Critics, Values, and Restoration Comedy
Author: John T. Harwood
Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Granting that literature delights, Harwood addresses the moral questions that have been hotly debated by critics for the 300 years since Restoration comedy flourished: “In what way does literature teach? How do beliefs about its effects on audiences shape critics’ responses to and judgment of literature?” Harwood begins with a survey of the “major rhetorical strategies by which many critics transform themselves, at least momentarily and perhaps unconsciously, into moralists when they deal with restoration comedy.” Then he places various moral responses in a broader critical context by analyzing ways in which critics have traditionally handled aesthetic problems, which inevitably entail an ethical assessment of literature. Third, he analyzes the moral dimensions of four controversial Restoration comedies: William Wycherley’s Country Wife; Edward Ravenscroft’s London Cuckolds; Thomas Otway’s Souldiers Fortune; and Thomas Shadwell’s Squire of Alsatia.
Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Granting that literature delights, Harwood addresses the moral questions that have been hotly debated by critics for the 300 years since Restoration comedy flourished: “In what way does literature teach? How do beliefs about its effects on audiences shape critics’ responses to and judgment of literature?” Harwood begins with a survey of the “major rhetorical strategies by which many critics transform themselves, at least momentarily and perhaps unconsciously, into moralists when they deal with restoration comedy.” Then he places various moral responses in a broader critical context by analyzing ways in which critics have traditionally handled aesthetic problems, which inevitably entail an ethical assessment of literature. Third, he analyzes the moral dimensions of four controversial Restoration comedies: William Wycherley’s Country Wife; Edward Ravenscroft’s London Cuckolds; Thomas Otway’s Souldiers Fortune; and Thomas Shadwell’s Squire of Alsatia.
A Study of the Moral Tone of Restoration Comedy
Author: Herbert Robinson Blackwell
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Restoration Comedy Moralisé
Author: John T. Harwood
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Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Perspectives on Restoration Drama
Author: Susan J. Owen
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719049675
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This book introduces students to drama from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the early 18th Century. Susan Owen offers representative coverage of new forms of drama in this period, and of ways in which old forms are altered. Her study covers heroic drama, comedy, tragedy, tragi-comedy, and Shakespeare adaptations, by focusing on specific 'dramatic highlights' and giving close reading of particular plays.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719049675
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This book introduces students to drama from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the early 18th Century. Susan Owen offers representative coverage of new forms of drama in this period, and of ways in which old forms are altered. Her study covers heroic drama, comedy, tragedy, tragi-comedy, and Shakespeare adaptations, by focusing on specific 'dramatic highlights' and giving close reading of particular plays.
Three Restoration Comedies
Author: George Etherege
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141937742
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
After the restoration of King Charles II to the British throne in 1660, dramatists experienced new freedom in an age that broke from the strict morality of puritan rule and in which elegance and wit became the chief virtues. Irreverent, licentious and cynical, the three plays collected here hold up a mirror to this dazzling era and satirize the gulf between appearances and reality. In Etherege's The Man of Mode (1676), the womanizing Dorimant meets his match when he falls in love with the unpretentious Harriet, while Wycherley's The Country Wife (c. 1675) depicts the rakish Horner who fakes impotence to fool trusting husbands into giving him easy access to their wives. And in Congreve's Love for Love (1695), the extravagant Valentine can only win his beloved Angelica if he loses his inheritance.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141937742
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
After the restoration of King Charles II to the British throne in 1660, dramatists experienced new freedom in an age that broke from the strict morality of puritan rule and in which elegance and wit became the chief virtues. Irreverent, licentious and cynical, the three plays collected here hold up a mirror to this dazzling era and satirize the gulf between appearances and reality. In Etherege's The Man of Mode (1676), the womanizing Dorimant meets his match when he falls in love with the unpretentious Harriet, while Wycherley's The Country Wife (c. 1675) depicts the rakish Horner who fakes impotence to fool trusting husbands into giving him easy access to their wives. And in Congreve's Love for Love (1695), the extravagant Valentine can only win his beloved Angelica if he loses his inheritance.
Restoration Comedy in Performance
Author: J. L. Styan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521274210
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
An exploration of the ways in which Restoration comedy was performed, using the costume, customs, manners and behaviour of the age as a way of understanding its theatre and drama. It also considers problems encountered in early twentieth century revivals of plays by authors such as Etherege, Dryden, Congreve and Farquhar.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521274210
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
An exploration of the ways in which Restoration comedy was performed, using the costume, customs, manners and behaviour of the age as a way of understanding its theatre and drama. It also considers problems encountered in early twentieth century revivals of plays by authors such as Etherege, Dryden, Congreve and Farquhar.