The Restoration Rake-hero
Author : Harold Weber
Publisher : Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,69 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Author : Harold Weber
Publisher : Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,69 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Author : Steven N. Zwicker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 36,24 MB
Release : 1998-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521564885
This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile and politically engaged moments. From the work of Milton and Marvell in the 1650s and 1660s through the brilliant careers of Dryden, Rochester, and Behn, Locke and Astell, Swift and Defoe, Pope and Montagu, the pressures and extremes of social, political, and sexual experience are everywhere reflected in literary texts: in the daring lyrics and intricate political allegories of this age, in the vitriol and bristling topicality of its satires as well as in the imaginative flight of its mock epics, fictions, and heroic verse. The volume's chronologies and select bibliographies will guide the reader through texts and events, while the fourteen essays commissioned for this Companion will allow us to read the period anew.
Author : J. Douglas Canfield
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0813193915
To understand the cultural history of England during the Restoration, one need look no further than the theater, which was attended by the gentry as well as by members of the middle and lower classes. The theater of this period embodied the values, meanings, and power relations of Restoration England. In Heroes and States, Douglas Canfield argues that drama not only represents but actually helps constitute the value and belief systems of an entire culture. Heroes and States completes Canfield's two-volume cultural history of Restoration drama, begun in Tricksters and Estates: On the Ideology of Restoration Comedy. In this second volume Canfield shows how Restoration playwrights attempted to rein scribe late-feudal aristocratic ideology after the English Civil War. In the serious drama of the period, conflict is between noble heroes, upon whom states are built, and transgressors of the established order—tyrants, traitors, usurpers, rapists, and atheists. Canfield considers several sub genres of tragedy. He argues that most of these sub genres reaffirm the older ideology after testing it in the fires of conflict. Tragical satire, on the other hand, the most subversive of these sub genres, exposes the failure of the ruling class to live up to its own codes and, in some cases, the absurdity of the codes themselves. Canfield also finds playwrights struggling with issues of race and colonialism. He uses the work of modern theorists such as Bakhtin, Girard, Kristeva, Derrida, Althusser, Williams, and Eagleton to illuminate aspects of his inquiries. Restoration tragedy stands on the cusp of a cultural transition from a late feudal to an early bourgeois ideology, and the issues and themes addressed in the theater validate the culture and politics of seventeenth-century England.
Author : Aphra Behn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 31,49 MB
Release : 1998
Category : English drama (Comedy)
ISBN : 9780192834515
Aphra Behn (1640-89) was both successful and controversial in her own lifetime; her achievements are now recognized less equivocally and her plays, often revived, demonstrate wit, compassion and remarkable range. This edition brings together her most important comedies in a single volume: The Rover, her best-known play; The Feigned Courtesans, a lively comedy of intrigue; The Lucky Chance, a comedy with a bitter edge, which takes a satirical look at marriage customs; and the dazzling and popular farce, The Emperor of the Moon. All the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation.
Author : Susan J. Owen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 34,74 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780719049675
This book introduces students to drama from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the early 18th Century. Susan Owen offers representative coverage of new forms of drama in this period, and of ways in which old forms are altered. Her study covers heroic drama, comedy, tragedy, tragi-comedy, and Shakespeare adaptations, by focusing on specific 'dramatic highlights' and giving close reading of particular plays.
Author : Adam Smyth
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 21,47 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Alcoholism in literature
ISBN : 9781843840091
Studies of the representation and understanding of drink and conviviality in diverse social contexts.
Author : Elaine M. McGirr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137061227
Eighteenth-Century Characters offers a concise introduction to the eighteenth century, using characters as its starting point. Elaine M. McGirr presents contextualized readings of stock characters from canonical and popular literature, such as: - The rake and the fop - The country gentleman - The good woman - The coquette and the prude - The country maid and the town lady - The Catholic, the Protestant and the British Other. Each chapter explores how a character's significance and role changes over the century, illustrating and explaining radical shifts in taste, ideology and style. Also featuring illustrations, a Chronology and a helpful Bibliography and Further Reading section, this essential guide will provide students with the necessary background to understand the period's literature and to embark on further study.
Author : Marilyn L. Williamson
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,93 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814322093
Author : John A. Vance
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 28,76 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780874137088
"This is a study of the four plays of William Wycherley - long considered one of England's most important playwrights especially of the theatrically rich Restoration period, 1660-1700. The subject of many a study by the period's leading scholars, Wycherley has been perceived as a vigorous satirist, setting out "quite openly to teach his audience" about a multitude of personal and social sins." "This study takes issue with such impressions. It argues that Wycherley was not so much an attacking playwright but rather a thinking one - little concerned with larger social, political, and moral matters but one fascinated instead by the workings and motivations of fallible and insecure men and women - by that which is constant, pervasive and obsessive."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Daniel Gustafson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 2020-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1684482119
Introduction: The long-running Restoration -- Corpsing Lothario -- Debating Dorimant -- Stuarts without end -- Libertines and liberalism.