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Author : John Harold Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : English drama
ISBN : OCLC:702831338
Author : Deborah Payne Fisk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 052158812X
Fourteen specially commissioned essays provide essential information about staging, playwrights, themes and genres in the drama of the Restoration.
Author : George Henry Nettleton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : English drama
ISBN : IOWA:31858008717260
Author : David Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107027831
An accessible and engaging introduction to Restoration drama, this book looks at the texts, performances, playhouses and people of seventeenth-century theatre.
Author : Katherine Mannheimer
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813950440
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.
Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : English drama
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Richard W. Bevis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317870920
What were the causes of Restoration drama's licentiousness? How did the elegantly-turned comedy of Congreve become the pointed satire of Fielding? And how did Sheridan and Goldsmith reshape the materials they inherited? In the first account of the entire period for more than a decade, Richard Bevis argues that none of these questions can be answered without an understanding of Augustan and Georgian history. The years between 1660 and 1789 saw considerable political and social upheaval, which is reflected in the eclectic array of dramatic forms that is Georgian theatre's essential characteristic.
Author : Anne Hermanson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317028543
A decade after the Restoration of Charles II, a disturbing group of tragedies, dubbed by modern critics the horror or the blood-and-torture villain tragedies, burst onto the London stage. Ten years later they were gone - absorbed into the partisan frenzy which enveloped the theatre at the height of the Exclusion Crisis. Despite burgeoning interest, until now there has been no full investigation into why these deeply unsettling plays were written when they were and why they so fascinated audiences for the period that they held the stage. The author’s contention is that the genre of horror gains its popularity at times of social dislocation. It reflects deep schisms in society, and English society was profoundly unsettled and in a (delayed) state of shock from years of social upheaval and civil conflict. Through recurrent images of monstrosity, madness, venereal disease, incest and atheism, Hermanson argues that the horror dramatists trope deep-seated and unresolved anxieties - engaging profoundly with contemporary discourse by abreacting the conspiratorial climate of suspicion and fear. Some go as far as to question unequivocally the moral and political value of monarchy, vilifying the office of kingship and pushing ideas of atheism further than in any drama produced since Seneca. This study marks the first comprehensive investigation of these macabre tragedies in which playwrights such as Nathaniel Lee, Thomas Shadwell, Elkanah Settle, Thomas Otway and the Earl of Rochester take their audience on an exploration of human iniquity, thrusting them into an examination of man’s relationship to God, power, justice and evil.
Author : J. Douglas Canfield,Maja-Lisa von Sneidern
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 1055 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781770483002
The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama, Concise Edition, with twenty-one plays, is half the length of the full anthology without compromising its breadth. Concentrating on plays from the heyday of 1660-1737, it focuses on Restoration drama proper and Revolution drama, with a selection from the early Georgian period and the later Georgian period's "laughing comedy." Seven of the nine sub-genres (personal tragedy, tragicomic romance, social comedy, subversive comedy, corrective satire, menippean satire, and laughing comedy) of the full anthology are represented, with the preponderance of exposure given to the jewel of this theatre, its comedy. Each play is fully annotated and prefaced with an historical introduction. Also included are a general introduction, a statement of procedures, and a glossary.
Author : George Watson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1698 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1971-07-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521079349
More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Author : Richard W. Bevis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317870913
What were the causes of Restoration drama's licentiousness? How did the elegantly-turned comedy of Congreve become the pointed satire of Fielding? And how did Sheridan and Goldsmith reshape the materials they inherited? In the first account of the entire period for more than a decade, Richard Bevis argues that none of these questions can be answered without an understanding of Augustan and Georgian history. The years between 1660 and 1789 saw considerable political and social upheaval, which is reflected in the eclectic array of dramatic forms that is Georgian theatre's essential characteristic.
Author : Styan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1965-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521065739
Professor Styan examines what a play is as well as understanding the dramatist's intentions towards this medium.
Author : J. Douglas Canfield,Maja-Lisa von Sneidern
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 1055 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-04-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781551115818
The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama, Concise Edition, with twenty-one plays, is half the length of the full anthology without compromising its breadth. Concentrating on plays from the heyday of 1660-1737, it focuses on Restoration drama proper and Revolution drama, with a selection from the early Georgian period and the later Georgian period’s “laughing comedy.” Seven of the nine sub-genres (personal tragedy, tragicomic romance, social comedy, subversive comedy, corrective satire, menippean satire, and laughing comedy) of the full anthology are represented, with the preponderance of exposure given to the jewel of this theatre, its comedy. Each play is fully annotated and prefaced with an historical introduction. Also included are a general introduction, a statement of procedures, and a glossary.
Author : David J. Latt,Samuel Holt Monk
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1976-04-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780816658121
John Dryden was first published in 1976. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This annotated bibliography represents a comprehensive updating of Samuel Holt Monk's earlier work, also published by the University of Minnesota Press, John Dryden: A List of Critical Studies Published from 1895 to 1948 (out of print). Since the publication of that earlier bibliography, the number of studies devoted to Dryden has more than tripled, and thus this new bibliography is essential for scholars of Dryden or related aspects of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English literature. This volume contains four times as many entries as the earlier volume, and there is an extensive introduction by Professor Latt which surveys the historical shifts in critical opinion of Dryden. The new volume incorporates all of the listings contained in the first one. The entries include works that focus directly on Dryden, those that discuss Dryden's works in the context of other writers, and those that investigate material of general importance to Dryden studies. Dissertations from American, German, English, and French universities are included. Complete bibliographic information is provided for virtually every entry. The listings are grouped in nine categories, and there is an additional section which covers festschriften and other collections of essays. Works of exceptional value and those which develop new points of view are so designated. The publishing history of each item is included along with the standard bibliographic information. The index includes topical as well as author entries.