Etherege and Wycherley
Etherege and Wycherley

Author: Barbara Kachur

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-03-10

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1137047798

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Etherege & Wycherley is the first book-length study devoted solely to these two leading comic dramatists of the early Restoration period. B.A. Kachur explores the major plays by George Etherege and William Wycherley within the context of the cultural, social and political changes that marked the reign of Charles II, and addresses issues such as marriage, manners, heroism, sovereignty and anxieties over class hierarchies which preoccupied late seventeenth-century England. The book provides studies of the following plays: - She Would If She Could - The Man of Mode - The Country Wife - The Plain Dealer In addition to examining the plays as cultural and historical texts, Kachur offers: - Biographical sketches detailing the dramaturgical styles of the two playwrights - An overview of Charles II's reign, including its effects on the dramatic literature of the era - A survey of Carolean theatre and drama outlining innovations in staging, and major dramatic genres - Performance histories which illuminate the ways in which twentieth-century directors have interpreted the comedies to make them accessible to modern audiences

Etherege and Wycherley
Etherege and Wycherley

Author: Barbara Kachur

Publisher: Red Globe Press

Published: 2004-06-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0333575407

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Examining the major plays of George Etherege and William Wycherley within the context of the cultural and historical changes that marked the early years of Charles II's reign, this book addresses various issues such as marriage, manners, heroism and sovereignty that preoccupied late seventeenth-century Britain. In addition to exploring the plays as cultural and historical texts, this study offers performance histories that illuminate ways in which twentieth-century directors have altered and interpreted these plays to make them accessible to modern audiences.

Restoration Comedy in Performance
Restoration Comedy in Performance

Author: J. L. Styan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1986-08-29

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780521274210

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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.

Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy
Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy

Author: Peggy Thompson

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1611483727

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Coyness and Crime examines the extraordinary focus on feminine coyness in forty English comedies by ten diverse playwrights of the late seventeenth-century. In contexts ranging from reaffirmations of church and king to emerging interests in liberty and novelty, these plays consistently reveal women caught in an ironic and nearly intractable convergence of objectification and culpability that allows them little innocent sexual agency; this is both the source and the legacy of coyness in Restoration comedy.

Four Great Restoration Comedies
Four Great Restoration Comedies

Author: William Wycherley

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-04-03

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0486153606

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Comedy classics that defined a new era in drama: The Country Wife by William Wycherley; The Man of Mode by Sir George Etheredge; The Rover by Aphra Behn; and The Relapse by Sir John Vanbrugh.

The Feminist Voices in Restoration Comedy
The Feminist Voices in Restoration Comedy

Author: Douglas M. Young

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13:

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Sir George Etherege, William Wycherley and William Congreve introduce into their play-worlds major female characters who demand independence and equality from their male counterparts. This book focuses on each major female character who demands independence and equality of her gallant-libertine before she will commit to marriage or courtship with him. This demand for equality is a contrast to the social and marital relationships found in the real world of 17th century English Restoration society where marriage was a bargaining process for property and where the woman was treated as the man's property. Each of the three playwrights develops his virtuous women in a different way. Wycherley's approach to his characters, for instance, is quite different from that of Etherege and Congreve. But in each case, the playwrights present major female characters who prove themselves superior in wit and wisdom and thoroughly modern in their outlook.

The Man of Mode
The Man of Mode

Author: George Etherege

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2007-10-22

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0713681934

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A revised reprint of this classic drama text with the addition of anew section on Recent Stage History and Critical Interpretation.

Restoration Comedy
Restoration Comedy

Author: Edward Burns

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1987-07-28

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1349187607

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What is Restoration comedy? What pleasure does it offer its audience, and what significance does it find in exploring that pleasure? Edward Burns here provides a new account of the origins and nature of Restoration comedy as a distinct genre. The book enlarges the usual focus with a wider range of writers than the conventional ossified canon taking in a revaluation of many rarely studied dramatists, a reconsideration of pastoral, and the instatement of women writers as major contributors to the culture of the age. It offers a substantial and original interpretation of one of the most intriguing of seventeenth-century literature forms.