Author: Jocelyn Powell
Publisher: London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: J. L. Styan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521274210
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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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.

Author: Deborah Payne Fisk
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521588126
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Fourteen specially commissioned essays provide essential information about staging, playwrights, themes and genres in the drama of the Restoration.

Author: Simon Callow
Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Simon Callow leads a two-day class on Restoration comedy with a group of British actors, including Gail McFarlane, Harry Meacher, Pamela Moiseiwitsch and Michael Stroud. It deals with The relapse by John Vanbrugh and shows practical acting techniques.

Author: Thomas Otway
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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Author: Tim Keenan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317064682
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Restoration Staging 1660–74 cuts through prevalent ideas of Restoration theatre and drama to read early plays in their original theatrical contexts. Tim Keenan argues that Restoration play texts contain far more information about their own performance than previously imagined. Focusing on specific productions and physical staging at the three theatres operating in the first years of the Restoration – Vere Street, Bridges Street and Lincoln’s Inn Fields – Keenan analyses stage directions, scene headings and other performance clues embedded in the play-texts themselves. These close readings shed new light on staging practices of the period, building a radical new model of early Restoration staging. Restoration Staging, 1660–74 takes account of all extant new plays written for or premiered at three of London’s early theatres, presenting a much-needed reassessment of early Restoration drama.

Author: George Etherege
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Author: Aphra Behn
Publisher: Joe Books Ltd
ISBN: 1987955684
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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The magic of Naples during Carnival inspires love between a disparate group of local citizens and visiting Englishmen.

Author: John Vanbrugh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Author: William Wycherley
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408179911
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 187

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'He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.' This bawdy, hilarious, subversive and wickedly satirical drama pokes fun at the humourless, the jealous, and the adulterous alike. It features a country wife, Margery, whose husband believes she is too naïve to cuckold him; and an anti-hero, Horner, who pretends to be impotent in order to have unrestrained access to the women keen on 'the sport'. A number of licentious and hypocritical women request Horner's services – the country wife among them. The Country Wife has provoked powerfully mixed reactions over the years. The seventeenth century libertine king Charles II saw it twice, and is said to have joined the 'dance of the cuckolds' at the end of one performance; the eighteenth century actor-playwright David Garrick declared it 'the most licentious play in the English language'; the Victorian Macaulay compared it to a skunk, because it was 'too filthy to handle and too noisome even to approach'. Twentieth century productions heralded it a Restoration masterpiece. Sexually frank, and as ready to criticise marriage as infidelity, the virtuosity, linguistic energy, brilliant wit, naughtiness and complexity of this ribald play have made it a staple of the modern stage. This student edition contains a lengthy, entirely new introduction, by leading scholar, Tiffany Stern, with a background on the author, structure, characters, genre, themes, original staging and performance history, as well as an updated bibliography and a fully annotated version of the playtext.