Four Restoration Playwrights
Author : J. M. Armistead
Publisher : Hall Reference Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 37,50 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : J. M. Armistead
Publisher : Hall Reference Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 37,50 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Deborah Payne Fisk
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 11,89 MB
Release : 2005-04-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780191517822
Thomas Shadwell, The Libertine * George Etherege, The Man of Mode * Thomas Durfey, A Fond Husband * Thomas Otway, Friendship in Fashion These four plays in the Oxford English Drama series capture the range of responses to the fashionable and daring libertine movement in the second half of the seventeenth century. A Fond Husband and Friendship in Fashion are lesser-known comic gems of the Restoration stage; The Man of Mode is Etherege's masterpiece, and The Libertine is Shadwell's experimental and dark version of the Don Juan story. The texts are freshly edited using modern spelling. There is a critical introduction, wide-ranging annotation, and an informative bibliography which together illuminate the plays' cultural context and theatrical potential for reader and performer alike. 'The series should shape the canon in a number of significant areas. A splendid and imaginative project.' Professor Anne Barton, Cambridge University
Author : Paddy Lyons
Publisher : Phoenix
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 48,11 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780460870801
Aphra Behn was the first woman to earn her living by writing for the theater, and was ranked by Defoe alongside Rochester and Milton as one of the 'great wits' of her century.
Author :
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 13,30 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781557831194
(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 : Tanya M. Caldwell
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 33,91 MB
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1770482830
This anthology offers a selection of popular dramatic works by female playwrights from Aphra Behn in the 1670s through Hannah Cowley in the later eighteenth century. These plays were successful as plays of their time, not just as plays by women, together providing evidence that women dramatists often managed better than their male counterparts to please diverse audiences, who were notoriously fickle as well as predisposed to oppose them. Accessible to both graduates and undergraduates, Popular Plays by Women shows how these playwrights captured audiences through wit, social awareness, and dramatic dexterity. As well as including the prologues and epilogues of the four plays presented, this anthology provides additional materials in which female playwrights discuss the prejudices and special difficulties they face.
Author : George Etherege
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 14,88 MB
Release : 1669
Category :
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Author : Aphra Behn
Publisher : Joe Books Ltd
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 13,95 MB
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1987955684
The magic of Naples during Carnival inspires love between a disparate group of local citizens and visiting Englishmen.
Author : Louis Booker Wright
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 33,25 MB
Release : 1964
Category : English drama
ISBN :
Author : Katherine M. Quinsey
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 27,7 MB
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0813159997
This volume of twelve original essays is the first comprehensive study of feminist issues in Restoration drama. The late seventeenth century marks a pivotal era in the history of feminism, when Renaissance assumptions about gender and patriarchy were being directly challenged. For the first time, women appeared onstage as actresses, made their presence felt as spectators and patrons, and wrote a number of the plays produced in theaters. In an unusually direct and probing way, drama of the Restoration period raised radical questions about the place of women in the family and in society, and about the essential nature of men and women. The essays examine feminist issues from a variety of historical and theoretical approaches across a spectrum of plays—comedies, tragedies, tragicomedies, and heroic drama. By addressing the acute questions of gender raised in the drama, Broken Boundaries presents a vivid portrait of the uncertainties and changing perceptions in all areas of intellectual, political, and social life during the last decades of the seventeenth century.
Author : Thomas Otway
Publisher :
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 19,85 MB
Release : 1682
Category : English drama
ISBN :