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| Author | : William Wycherley |
| Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2012-04-03 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 0486153606 |
Comedy classics that defined a new era in drama: The Country Wife by William Wycherley; The Man of Mode by Sir George Etheredge; The Rover by Aphra Behn; and The Relapse by Sir John Vanbrugh.
| Author | : Wordsworth Editions, Limited |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 1999-11-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781840221183 |
| Author | : Deborah Payne Fisk |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 1559 |
| Release | : 2005-04-14 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 019160528X |
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 | : |
| Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 148 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Thomas Otway |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 516 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780192834478 |
Marriage and its discontents lie at the heart of Restoration comedy. In all four of the great plays gathered here, a married woman confronts her would-be seducer. Each dramatist, however, totally reinterprets the situation. Thomas Otway's The Soldier's Fortune converts adultery into political revenge. Nathaniel Lee's The Princess of Cleves offers a potent and perplexing portrait of a libertine in action at the sixteenth-century French court. John Dryden's Amphitryon, set in ancient Thebes, retells the story in which Jupiter lures the virtuous Alcmena into cuckolding her husband by a stratagem that throws into doubt the very nature of human identity. Thomas Southerne's The Wives' Excuse reinvents, for the new circumstances of the 1690s, the familiar Restoration plot of a wife spurred towards infidelity by her partner's failings. All of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation.
| Author | : Brooks 1894-1984 Atkinson |
| Publisher | : Hassell Street Press |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2021-09-09 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781014659958 |
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| Author | : George Etherege |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 720 |
| Release | : 2005-11-24 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 0141937742 |
After the restoration of King Charles II to the British throne in 1660, dramatists experienced new freedom in an age that broke from the strict morality of puritan rule and in which elegance and wit became the chief virtues. Irreverent, licentious and cynical, the three plays collected here hold up a mirror to this dazzling era and satirize the gulf between appearances and reality. In Etherege's The Man of Mode (1676), the womanizing Dorimant meets his match when he falls in love with the unpretentious Harriet, while Wycherley's The Country Wife (c. 1675) depicts the rakish Horner who fakes impotence to fool trusting husbands into giving him easy access to their wives. And in Congreve's Love for Love (1695), the extravagant Valentine can only win his beloved Angelica if he loses his inheritance.
| Author | : Deborah Payne Fisk |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 468 |
| Release | : 2005-04-14 |
| Genre | : 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
