[PDF] Comedy And Conscience After The Restoration eBook

Author : George Etherege
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 31,78 MB
Release : 2005-11-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0141937742

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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.

Author : George Winchester Stone
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 29,99 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780809307432

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Representative selections from Restoration and eighteenth-century drama, comedy, satire, tragedy, and farce are prefaced by descriptions of the theaters, acting styles, methods of play production, and audiences.

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Page : 642 pages
File Size : 50,65 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Electronic journals
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Author : Dr Aparna Gollapudi
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 39,63 MB
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1409478793

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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.

Author : Agnes V. Persson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 19,63 MB
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3111655245

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