Restoration Drama And The Idea Of Literature

Author : Katherine Mannheimer
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813950440

Get Book

Restoration Drama and the Idea of Literature by Katherine Mannheimer Pdf

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 : Susan J. Owen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719049679

Get Book

Perspectives on Restoration Drama by Susan J. Owen Pdf

This book introduces students to drama from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the early 18th Century. Susan Owen offers representative coverage of new forms of drama in this period, and of ways in which old forms are altered. Her study covers heroic drama, comedy, tragedy, tragi-comedy, and Shakespeare adaptations, by focusing on specific 'dramatic highlights' and giving close reading of particular plays.

Author : Richard W. Bevis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317870920

Get Book

English Drama by Richard W. Bevis Pdf

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 : Deborah Payne Fisk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 052158812X

Get Book

The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre by Deborah Payne Fisk Pdf

Fourteen specially commissioned essays provide essential information about staging, playwrights, themes and genres in the drama of the Restoration.

Author : John McVeagh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351879408

Get Book

Thomas Durfey and Restoration Drama by John McVeagh Pdf

Though once a favourite of no fewer than four English monarchs, Restoration playwright Thomas Durfey has long been neglected by scholars. In his own day he had a lowly reputation in the world of polite letters - before his death his plays had more or less ceased to be produced; his 'serious' poems had died long before that, and even his songs were soon thought of as common property or 'folk' songs. In this new study, author John McVeagh re-examines Durfey's literary output, finding merit and interest where it has long been presumed that none existed, and restoring Durfey to his proper place in late 17th- and early 18th-century literature. Durfey's creative lifetime spanned the entire Restoration period and continued into and beyond the reign of Queen Anne. McVeagh's book studies his continuing ability to adapt to shifts in taste, fashion and personnel in the world of the theatre. It examines in detail his numerous experiments in new kinds of dramatic writing, both responding to and influencing the conditions of theatrical and artistic production. Among the topics covered are Durfey's attempts to feminize Restoration comedy, his political satires in drama in the late Stuart years, his anticipations of sentimental comedy, his search for a new language for lower class tragedy, and his musical-dramatic experimentations in the 1680s and 1690s, focusing particularly on his collaborative work with Matthew Locke, Samuel Ackroyde, John Eccles, Daniel and Henry Purcell and other composers. In addition, the author discusses Durfey's numerous satiric, narrative and other poems, and relates his writings to their social, political and cultural contexts. The book includes a performance record, listing the plays by performance date. The record includes such information, if known, as: where it was performed; by what company; cast list; to whom it was dedicated; a brief description of the prologue and epilogue; when it was published; what music it contained; and details of any revivals.

Author : J. Douglas Canfield,Maja-Lisa von Sneidern
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 1055 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781551115818

Get Book

The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century Drama: Concise Edition by J. Douglas Canfield,Maja-Lisa von Sneidern Pdf

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 : J. Douglas Canfield,Maja-Lisa von Sneidern
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 1055 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781770483002

Get Book

The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century Drama: Concise Edition by J. Douglas Canfield,Maja-Lisa von Sneidern Pdf

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 : Susan J. Owen
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1405176105

Get Book

A Companion to Restoration Drama by Susan J. Owen Pdf

This Companion illustrates the vitality and diversity of dramatic work 1660 to 1710. Twenty-five essays by leading scholars in the field bring together the best recent insights into the full range of dramatic practice and innovation at the time. Introduces readers to the recent boom in scholarship that has revitalised Restoration drama Explores historical and cultural contexts, genres of Restoration drama, and key dramatists, among them Dryden and Behn

Author : Katherine M. Quinsey
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780813159997

Get Book

Broken Boundaries by Katherine M. Quinsey Pdf

This volume of twelve original essays is the first comprehensive study of feminist issues in Restoration drama. The late seventeenth century marks a pivotal era in the history of feminism, when Renaissance assumptions about gender and patriarchy were being directly challenged. For the first time, women appeared onstage as actresses, made their presence felt as spectators and patrons, and wrote a number of the plays produced in theaters. In an unusually direct and probing way, drama of the Restoration period raised radical questions about the place of women in the family and in society, and about the essential nature of men and women. The essays examine feminist issues from a variety of historical and theoretical approaches across a spectrum of plays—comedies, tragedies, tragicomedies, and heroic drama. By addressing the acute questions of gender raised in the drama, Broken Boundaries presents a vivid portrait of the uncertainties and changing perceptions in all areas of intellectual, political, and social life during the last decades of the seventeenth century.

Author : Harriett Hawkins
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874139090

Get Book

Style by Harriett Hawkins Pdf

"The late Harriett Hawkins was a senior research fellow of Linacre College, Oxford University, and author of several influential works of Renaissance literary criticism and cultural studies such as Likenesses of Truth in Elizabethan and Restoration Drama; Poetic Freedom and Poetic Truth; The Devil's Party; Classics and Trash: Traditions and Taboos in "High" Literature and Popular Modern Genres; and Strange Attractors: Literature, Culture and Chaos Theory. Her friends, family, and colleagues pay tribute to her sense of style - personal and literary - with essays inspired by her own interdisciplinary interests and high scholarly standards."--Jacket.

Author : Alexander Leggatt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317871460

Get Book

English Drama by Alexander Leggatt Pdf

The most important period in the history of English drama is revealed in Alexander Leggatt's challenging account. The author considers English drama from the beginning of Shakespeare's career to the restoration of Charles II. Focusing on Shakespeare and the development of his art, he examines all his major contemporaries: Jonson, Middleton, Webster, Beaumont, Fletcher and Ford. He combines close analysis of specific plays with a broader look at trends within drama.

Author : John Harold Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : English drama
ISBN : 0196264812

Get Book

A Preface to Restoration Drama by John Harold Wilson Pdf

Author : Deborah Payne Fisk,J. Douglas Canfield
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820337890

Get Book

Cultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Theater by Deborah Payne Fisk,J. Douglas Canfield Pdf

Ranging in approach from feminist to historicist, the eleven essays in this collection share the culturalist premise that the drama of late Stuart and early Georgian England helped to constitute the dominant ideology of the period. The contributors' varied approaches allow for the reconsideration of libertinism, the politics of sexual desire, and other classic issues, as well as such newer concerns as the social construction of the first English actresses, empiricism as an emergent epistemological discourse, cultural anxiety about novelty and repetition, and shifting tropes of inherent worth. By reading well-known works in unexpected ways and focusing on less frequently studied dramatists, from Sedley, Motteux, Pix, and Behn to Manley, Trotter, and Shadwell, the contributors also test the limits of the canon. In addition, they suggest that earlier critical perceptions, perhaps even more than the “innate worth” of the plays, determined the shape of the canon. These essays present a different image of Restoration and eighteenth-century theater, one that reveals how the drama was a site as important for the negotiation of cultural meaning as were novels and verse satires.

Author : Gerald M. MacLean
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 052147566X

Get Book

Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration by Gerald M. MacLean Pdf

Literary and cultural changes reflecting new commercial and imperial interests of Restoration Britain.

Author : J. Douglas Canfield,Maja-Lisa von Sneidern
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 2001 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001-05-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781551112701

Get Book

The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama by J. Douglas Canfield,Maja-Lisa von Sneidern Pdf

This is the first new full-scale anthology of Restoration and eighteenth-century drama in over sixty years. Concentrating on plays from the heyday of 1660-1737, it focuses especially on Restoration drama proper (1660-1688) and Revolution drama (1689-1714), with a smaller selection of plays from the early Georgian period (1715-1737) and a glimpse at the later Georgian period’s “laughing comedy” (1770s and 80s). It includes nine sub-genres (heroic romance, political tragedy, personal tragedy, tragicomic romance, social comedy, subversive comedy, corrective satire, menippean satire, and laughing comedy), with the preponderance of exposure given to the jewel of this theatre, its comedy. The core canonical plays from the era—from Dryden’s All for Love and Behn’s The Rover to Congreve’s The Way of the World and Sheridan’s School for Scandal—are all here, but so are a remarkably wide range of non-canonical works. There are many more plays by women than in any previous general anthology of drama of the period. Also included are a number of works from the neglected 1660s, whose comedies feature delightful, subversive, levelling folk elements. In all there are forty-one plays; each is fully annotated and prefaced with an historical introduction. Also included are a general introduction, head-notes for each genre, and a glossary.