Shadwells Restoration Comedy A Play In Three Acts
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Author | : Frank J. Morlock |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2013-08-05 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1434443248 |
Thomas Shadwell (1642-1692) wrote a number of comic plays during his life. His drama featured broadly-based, coarse humor, and is filled with crude-but-vibrant characters drawn from the streets of Restoration London, individuals such as sharpers, whores, and eccentrics. His work is essentially plotless, but reeks with the odor of real people. Frank J. Morlock has created a composite drama (with plot!) from Shadwell's many works, but particularly employing pieces of The Woman Captain, The Squire of Alsatia, The Sullen Lovers, and The Virtuoso. The result is an hilarious masterpiece that's as timeless and as entertaining as the best of modern comedy.
Author | : William Wycherley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : English drama |
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Author | : KATHLEEN MARTHA LYNCH |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 1924 |
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Author | : William Moseley Kerby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Comedies of manners, English |
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Author | : Allardyce Nicoll |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : English drama |
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Author | : Allardyce Nicoll |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : English drama |
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Author | : Allardyce Nicoll |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : English drama |
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Author | : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 800 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal) |
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Author | : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 800 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal) |
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Author | : Katherine Mannheimer |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2023-12-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813950449 |
From 1642 to 1660, live theater was banned in England. The market for printed books, however—including plays—flourished. How did this period, when plays could be read but not performed, affect the way drama was written thereafter? As Katherine Mannheimer demonstrates, the plays of the following decades exhibited a distinct self-consciousness of drama’s status as a singular art form that straddled both page and stage. Scholars have commented on how the ban on live performance changed the way consumers read plays, but no previous book has addressed how this upheaval changed the way dramatists wrote them. In Restoration Drama and the Idea of Literature, Mannheimer argues that Restoration playwrights recognized and exploited the tension between print and performance inherent to all drama. By repeatedly and systematically manipulating this tension, these authors’ works sought to court the reader while at the same time also challenging emergent concepts of "literature" that privileged textuality and print culture over the performing body and the live voice.