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Shakespeare Adaptations from the Restoration
Author | : Barbara A. Murray |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 658 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780838640562 |
Between 1660 and 1682 seventeen of Shakespeare's plays were altered for the new Restoration stages and times. Shakespeare Adaptations from the Restoration: Five Plays now publishes five of these plays for the first time in a critical edition.
Catalog of Printed Books of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Author | : Folger Shakespeare Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 740 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
Boccaccio in English
Author | : Franklin Samuel Stych |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
English criticism of Boccaccion in English, and foreign language studies by English-speaking authors.
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author | : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1288 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : English imprints |
ISBN | : |
Tricksters and Estates
Author | : J. Douglas Canfield |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2021-12-14 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0813189659 |
If the Renaissance was the Golden Age of English comedy, the Restoration was the Silver. These comedies are full of tricksters attempting to gain estates, the emblem and the reality of power in late feudal England. The tricksters appear in a number of guises, such as heroines landing their men, younger brothers seeking estates, or Cavaliers threatened with dispossession. The hybrid nature of these plays has long posed problems for critics, and few studies have attempted to deal with their diversity in a comprehensive way. Now one of the leading scholars of Restoration drama offers a cultural history of the period's comedy that puts the plays in perspective and reveals the ideological function they performed in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century. To explain this function, J. Douglas Canfield groups the plays into three categories: social comedy, which underwrites Stuart ideology; subversive comedy, which undercuts it; and comical satire, which challenges it as fundamentally immoral or amoral. Through play-by-play analysis, he demonstrates how most of the comedies support the ideology of the Stuart monarchs and the aristocracy, upholding what they regarded as their natural right to rule because of an innate superiority over all other classes. A significant minority of comedies, however, reveal cracks in class solidarity, portray witty heroines who inhabit the margins of society, or give voice to folk tricksters who embody a democratic force nearly capable of overwhelming class hierarchy. A smaller yet but still significant minority end in no resolution, no restoration, but, at their most radical, playfully portray Stuart ideology as empty rhetoric. Tricksters and Estates is a truly comprehensive work, offering serious critical readings of many plays that have never before received close attention and fresh insights into more familiar works. By juxtaposing the comedies of such lesser-known playwrights as Orrery, Lacy, and Rawlins with those of more familiar figures like Behn, Wycherley, and Dryden, the author invites a greater appreciation than has previously been possible of the meaning and function of Restoration comedy. This intelligent and wide-ranging study promises is a standard work in its field.
Felix Holt, the Radical
Author | : George Eliot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Elections |
ISBN | : |
Set in 1830s England, Felix Holt tells the story of proud and sensitive Esther Lyon, who dreams of a life of refinement and must choose betweeen wealthy Harold Transome and idealistic reformer Felix Holt.