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Author: Deborah Payne Fisk
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-05-11
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780521588126
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFourteen specially commissioned essays provide essential information about staging, playwrights, themes and genres in the drama of the Restoration.
Author: J. L. Styan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1986-08-29
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521274210
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn 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.
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Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9781557831194
DOWNLOAD EBOOK(Applause Acting Series). The art of acting in restoration comedy, the buoyant, often bowdy romps which celebrated the reopening of the English theatres after Cromwell's dour reign, is the subject of Simon Callow's bold investigation. There is cause again to celebrate as Callow, one of Britain's foremost actors, aims to restore the form to all its original voluptuous vigor. Callow shows the way to attain clarity and hilarity in some of the most delightful roles ever conceived for the theatre.
Author: Derek Hughes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-11-25
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 1139826948
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraditionally known as the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn has now emerged as one of the major figures of the Restoration. She provided more plays for the stage than any other author and greatly influenced the development of the novel with her ground-breaking fiction, especially Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister and Oroonoko, the first English novel set in America. Behn's work straddles the genres: beside drama and fiction, she also excelled in poetry and she made several important translations from French libertine and scientific works. This Companion discusses and introduces her writings in all these fields and provides the critical tools with which to judge their aesthetic and historical importance. It also includes a full bibliography, a detailed chronology and a description of the known facts of her life. The Companion will be an essential tool for the study of this increasingly important writer and thinker.
Author: Susan J. Owen
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2008-02-26
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9781405176101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Companion illustrates the vitality and diversity of dramatic work 1660 to 1710. Twenty-five essays by leading scholars in the field bring together the best recent insights into the full range of dramatic practice and innovation at the time. Introduces readers to the recent boom in scholarship that has revitalised Restoration drama Explores historical and cultural contexts, genres of Restoration drama, and key dramatists, among them Dryden and Behn
Author: Diana Solomon
Publisher: University of Delaware
Published: 2013-04-11
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1611494230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a taxonomy of prologues and epilogues with a corresponding appendix, and demonstrates through case studies of Anne Bracegirdle and Anne Oldfield how the study of prologues and epilogues enriches Restoration theater scholarship.
Author: George Etherege
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Published: 1669
Total Pages: 92
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Deborah Payne Fisk
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2010-12-01
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0820337897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRanging in approach from feminist to historicist, the eleven essays in this collection share the culturalist premise that the drama of late Stuart and early Georgian England helped to constitute the dominant ideology of the period. The contributors' varied approaches allow for the reconsideration of libertinism, the politics of sexual desire, and other classic issues, as well as such newer concerns as the social construction of the first English actresses, empiricism as an emergent epistemological discourse, cultural anxiety about novelty and repetition, and shifting tropes of inherent worth. By reading well-known works in unexpected ways and focusing on less frequently studied dramatists, from Sedley, Motteux, Pix, and Behn to Manley, Trotter, and Shadwell, the contributors also test the limits of the canon. In addition, they suggest that earlier critical perceptions, perhaps even more than the “innate worth” of the plays, determined the shape of the canon. These essays present a different image of Restoration and eighteenth-century theater, one that reveals how the drama was a site as important for the negotiation of cultural meaning as were novels and verse satires.
Author: Richard W. Bevis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-06
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1317870921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat were the causes of Restoration drama's licentiousness? How did the elegantly-turned comedy of Congreve become the pointed satire of Fielding? And how did Sheridan and Goldsmith reshape the materials they inherited? In the first account of the entire period for more than a decade, Richard Bevis argues that none of these questions can be answered without an understanding of Augustan and Georgian history. The years between 1660 and 1789 saw considerable political and social upheaval, which is reflected in the eclectic array of dramatic forms that is Georgian theatre's essential characteristic.
Author: Jocelyn Powell
Publisher: London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 272
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