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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 | : 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 | : Simon Callow |
| Publisher | : Applause Theatre & Cinema |
| Total Pages | : 154 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : |
Simon Callow leads a two-day class on Restoration comedy with a group of British actors, including Gail McFarlane, Harry Meacher, Pamela Moiseiwitsch and Michael Stroud. It deals with The relapse by John Vanbrugh and shows practical acting techniques.
| 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 | : J. L. Styan |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 1986-08-29 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780521274210 |
An exploration of the ways in which Restoration comedy was performed, using the costume, customs, manners and behaviour of the age as a way of understanding its theatre and drama. It also considers problems encountered in early twentieth century revivals of plays by authors such as Etherege, Dryden, Congreve and Farquhar.
| Author | : George Etherege |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2007-10-22 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 0713681934 |
A revised reprint of this classic drama text with the addition of anew section on Recent Stage History and Critical Interpretation.
| 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 | : Elizabeth Kraft |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 2016-10-04 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317064720 |
In Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films, Elizabeth Kraft brings the canon of Restoration comedy into the conversation initiated by Stanley Cavell in his book Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Before there could be imagined remarriages of the sort Cavell documents, there had to be imagined marriages of equality. Such imagined marriages were first mapped out on the Restoration stage by witty pairs such as Harriet and Dorimant, Millamant and Mirabell, and Alithea and Harcourt who are precursors of the central couples in films such as Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, and The Lady Eve. In considering the Restoration comedy canon in one-on-one discourse with the Hollywood remarriage comedy canon, Kraft demonstrates the indebtedness of the twentieth-century films to the Restoration dramatic texts-and the philosophical richness of both canons as they explore the nature and significance of marriage as pursuit of moral perfectionism. Her book will be of interest to specialists in Restoration drama and film scholars.
| Author | : Kathleen Martha Lynch |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 1926 |
| Genre | : Comedies of manners, English |
| ISBN | : |
