Social Mode of Restoration Comedy
Social Mode of Restoration Comedy

Author: Kathleen M. Lynch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-23

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0429620411

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Published in 1967: This book is a historical account of comedy during the Restoration period in England. It discusses Comedy from Jonson to Shirley, serious drama in the Reign of Charles I and the period of Etherege.

Comedy of Manners
Comedy of Manners

Author: David L. Hirst

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-20

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 1351629905

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First published in 1979, this book traces comedy of manners from the 1660s to the then present — a scope beyond the traditional focus on the Restoration and early twentieth century. It uncovers an underestimated subversive potential and socially critical force in this particularly English dramatic form, emphasising the distinctive subjects and style that distinguish it from more general forms of witty social satire. The author discusses the major comic dramatists of the post-Restoration period; reassesses the significance of Sheridan, Wilde and Coward; and examines the continuation of the tradition in modern writers. This book will be of interest to students of English literature and drama.

British Dramatists from Dryden to Sheridan
British Dramatists from Dryden to Sheridan

Author: George Winchester Stone

Publisher: SIU Press

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 980

ISBN-13: 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.

Marriage A-La-Mode
Marriage A-La-Mode

Author: John Dryden

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-06-13

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1408144263

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Dryden's audiences in 1671, both aristocratic and middle-class, would have been quick to respond to the themes of disputed royal succession, Francophilia and loyalty among subjects in his most successful tragicomedy. In the tragic plot, written in verse, young Leonidas has to struggle to assert his place as the rightful heir to the throne of Sicily and to the hand of the usurper's daughter. In the comic plot, written in prose, two fashionable couples (much more at home in London drawing-rooms than at the Sicilian court) play at switching partners in the 'modern' style. The introduction of this edition argues that Dryden's own ambivalence about King Charles and his entourage, on whom he came to rely more on more for patronage, manifests itself in both plots; most of all perhaps in the excessively Francophile Melantha, whose affectation cannot quite hide her endearing joie-de-vivre.