Comedy Of Manners

Author : David L. Hirst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351629904

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Comedy of Manners by David L. Hirst Pdf

First published in 1979, this book traces comedy of manners from the 1660s to the then present — a scope beyond the traditional focus on the Restoration and early twentieth century. It uncovers an underestimated subversive potential and socially critical force in this particularly English dramatic form, emphasising the distinctive subjects and style that distinguish it from more general forms of witty social satire. The author discusses the major comic dramatists of the post-Restoration period; reassesses the significance of Sheridan, Wilde and Coward; and examines the continuation of the tradition in modern writers. This book will be of interest to students of English literature and drama.

Author : John Palmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : English drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045029050

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The Comedy of Manners by John Palmer Pdf

Author : Kenneth Muir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000579208

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The Comedy of Manners by Kenneth Muir Pdf

Originally published in 1970, this title starts with an introduction, in which Professor Muir distinguishes between the Comedy of Manners and other types of comedy and traces its origins in English and French literature, there are then chapters on the major writers – Etherege, Dryden, Wycherly, Congreve, Vanbrugh, Farquhar – and on Jeremy Collier’s attack on the immorality and profaneness of the plays. This is followed by a discussion of the reasons for the decline of comedy in the eighteenth century and an account of its revival by Sheridan and, belatedly, by Wilde. Professor Muir takes issue with a number of recent critics on the dramatic value of the plays.

Author : Pat Gill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820316644

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Interpreting Ladies by Pat Gill Pdf

Interpreting Ladies explores the defense by the Restoration comedy of manners of an ideal of aristocratic, conservative, English masculinity against the heavily satirized encroachments of French foppishness and the pretensions of the aspiring merchant class. Using Freud's theory of obscene wit, in which obscene jokes become reassuring testimonies of male privilege, as well as more recent theoretical descriptions of the discursive processes of meaning and desire, Gill considers the position of both the female protagonists and the female spectators in Restoration satire. She sketches the historical events and issues that create the link between morality and rhetoric and that serve to connect each to class and status. Gill posits that the moral indeterminacy and slippage in satiric language is closely linked to male uneasiness about female honesty, and the dramatists' arguments in defense of their satiric treatments of female hypocrisy, duplicity, and sexual desire expose the gap in the moral premise of Restoration comic satire. It is a gap, Gill contends, that has everything to do with women - with female characters and putative female spectators - and it is why she states that "any reading that proposes to account for the equivocal satiric practice of Restoration comedy must therefore of necessity include a feminist critique".

Author : Clarence Sibley Paine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Comedies of manners, English
ISBN : WISC:89090343328

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The Comedy of Manners (1660-1700) by Clarence Sibley Paine Pdf

Author : William Congreve
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1046257924

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˜Theœ way of the world by William Congreve Pdf

Author : John Palmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : English drama
ISBN : UCAL:$B252661

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The Comedy of Manners by John Palmer Pdf

Author : Newell W. Sawyer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512806564

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The Comedy of Manners from Sheridan to Maugham by Newell W. Sawyer Pdf

In the two centuries between the first performance of The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and the outbreak of the First World War, the stage provided an accurate mirror of the changing mores of English society. "High comedy," Newell W. Sawyer writes, "views man as a social animal in the midst of his fellows, with customs, conventions, and traditions of his own devising, and prods him gently or mockingly, as he stands confounded by that which he has made." The comedy of manners became, from its prototype, a dramatic category reflecting the life, thought, and manners of upper-class society, faithful to its traditions and philosophy, and as such offers an ideal medium for such a study as Professor Sawyer has here undertaken. The result is a book that is at once entertaining and serious, a study of two centuries of the British stage,

Author : Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher : Merriam-Webster
Page : 1260 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literature
ISBN : 0877790426

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Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature by Merriam-Webster, Inc Pdf

Describes authors, works, and literary terms from all eras and all parts of the world.

Author : JOHN. PALMER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033266507

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COMEDY OF MANNERS by JOHN. PALMER Pdf

Author : Ram Chandra Sharma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : English drama
ISBN : 0848263561

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Themes and Conventions in the Comedy of Manners by Ram Chandra Sharma Pdf

Author : John Palmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1122631768

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The Comedy of Manners by John Palmer Pdf

Author : R.C.. Sharma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : English drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015095461

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Themes and Conventions in the Comedy of Manners by R.C.. Sharma Pdf

Author : Sarup Singh
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003755597

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Family Relationships in Shakespeare and the Restoration Comedy of Manners by Sarup Singh Pdf

Author : John Leslie 1885 Palmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1361573937

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COMEDY OF MANNERS by John Leslie 1885 Palmer Pdf