Court Satires of the Restoration
Author: John Harold Wilson
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0814202497
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Author: John Harold Wilson
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0814202497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harold Love
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2004-08-05
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 019925561X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen late seventeenth-century readers wanted to inform themselves about happenings at the centres of power and fashion they had no newspapers or gossip columns to fall back on. Instead they turned to lampoons - frank, malicious, and often highly indecent accounts in verse of the real or fabricated goings on of the court and ruling elite. Harold Love presents the first comprehensive account of the thousands of lampoons and more serious `state poems' that survive from RestorationEngland and their impact on the life of the nation and the literary practice of satire.
Author: Paul Hammond
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780192833310
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis anthology brings together a stimulating and entertaining collection of works from the confident and creative period of 1660-1700. The literature of this time is by turns refined, poignant, and brash. Alongside major works such as Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel and Mac Flecknoe, printed in their entirety, is a substantial group of lyrics by Rochester, while Milton's Paradise Lost provides a running commentary on the Restoration scene. Scurrilous satires and pamphlets, diaries, theatrical prologues, translations and striking work by women poets and autobiographers illustrate the period in politics, religion, philosophy and in attitudes to town and country, love and friendship.
Author: John Dryden
Publisher:
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 78
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jonathan Greenberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1107030188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a comprehensive overview for both beginning and advanced students of satiric forms from ancient poetry to contemporary digital media.
Author: Marianne Thormählen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-06-25
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780521440424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major new study of the notorious Restoration rake-poet, set in his intellectual context.
Author: Alan Marshall
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780719049750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMonarchical government in the later 17th century was a political fact of life and remains central to an understanding of the period. The subject of this book is the court of the later Stuart kings in the period 1660-1702. Its purpose is to provide an introduction to some of the emergent themes of court politics, culture and society. Marshall achieves this by analyzing the ritual side of court government in its structural, political and cultural guises.
Author: Jacob Rabinowitz
Publisher:
Published: 2020-10-26
Total Pages: 78
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis satire offers an amazingly vivid panorama of Restoration England: the out-of-power Puritans, the rakes and favorites of the court, Titus Oates, the Popish Plot, and the birth of true Parliamentary government. Told from a reactionary royalist point of view, this is conservative propaganda of genius, as though Shakespeare were writing copy for Fox News.The Kraken Series offers the only editions of Dryden's plays that fully explain all the archaic language, slang, historical references, as well as the perplexing syntax employed by Dryden, who wrote in English but often thought in Latin. Kraken does for Dryden what Folger did for Shakespeare. This volume contains a detailed historical preface.
Author: Hannah Lavery
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-03
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1317027671
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book length study of the motif of impotency in poetry from early antiquity through to the late Restoration, this book explores the impotency poem as a recognisable form of poetry in the longer tradition of erotic elegy. Hannah Lavery’s central claim is that the impotency motif is adopted by poets in recognition of its potential to signify satirically through its use as symbol and allegory. By drawing together analysis of works in the tradition, Lavery shows how the impotency motif is used to engage with anxieties as to what it means to enact ’service’ within political and social contexts. She demonstrates that impotency poems can be seen on one level to represent bawdy escapism, but on the other to offer positions of resistance and opposition to social and political concerns contemporary to a particular time. Whilst the link between the 'Imperfect Enjoyment' poems by Ovid and Rochester is well known, Lavery here looks further back to the origins of the concept of male impotency as degradation in the works of earlier Roman poets. This is an important context for considering how the impotency poem then first appears in the French and English vernaculars during the sixteenth century, leading to translations and adaptations throughout the seventeenth century. Lavery's close readings of the poems consider both the nature of the literary form, and the political and social contexts within which the works appear, in order to chart the intertextual development of the impotency poem as a distinct form of writing in the early modern period.
Author: Janet Todd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-03-28
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780521471695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAphra Behn was England's first professional woman writer, but her status as a major author has only recently become clear. Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, Behn was denigrated for her 'unwomanly' subject matter and intellectual immodesty. In the twentieth century she has been increasingly viewed as an important dramatist and poet of the Restoration and a founder of the English novel. This book sets Behn firmly in an historical context of political factions, theatre developments and colonial encounters, and includes chapters on each of the genres in which she wrote: drama, fiction, poetry and translation, and on other aspects of her life, from her publishing struggles to her involvement in American slavery. It is an important resource for those studying seventeenth-century English literature and drama, and to those interested in the development of women's writing.