Character Portrayal in Congreve's Comedies The Old Batchelour, Love for Love, and The Way of the WorldE. Mellen Press, 1996 - 151 páginas This study offers a detailed examination of these three comedies against their Restoration background. Particular attention is paid to the concept of the marriage market. |
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... character . At times the relation between groups of characters may be antagonistic , such as in the first chapter of the second part , which deals with wits in opposition to fops and fools . As the protagonists generally belong to the ...
... character . At times the relation between groups of characters may be antagonistic , such as in the first chapter of the second part , which deals with wits in opposition to fops and fools . As the protagonists generally belong to the ...
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... character and their verbal professions render them ridiculous and make exactly those characters become the main targets of satire , who carefully try to maintain the facade of appearance . Congreve ,, who was concerned with the complex ...
... character and their verbal professions render them ridiculous and make exactly those characters become the main targets of satire , who carefully try to maintain the facade of appearance . Congreve ,, who was concerned with the complex ...
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... characters who are vicious and hypocritical are rejected . ' 175 Even in the characters ridiculed , it is therefore not the vice that the dramatist finds repulsive but the " socially inadequate manner of exercising it and the hypocrisy ...
... characters who are vicious and hypocritical are rejected . ' 175 Even in the characters ridiculed , it is therefore not the vice that the dramatist finds repulsive but the " socially inadequate manner of exercising it and the hypocrisy ...
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Jeremy Colliers A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness | 5 |
II | 16 |
RuralUrban | 42 |
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According amorous Angelica Araminta attacked audience behaviour Belinda Bellmour Brian ed Carl Hanna Klaus century comedy of manners comic Congreve's comedies Congreve's plays contends courtship critics cuckold disguise dramatic dramatists Ernest Benn 1972 Etherege Fainall Fainall's Foakes Fondlewife fools Foresight fortune Frail Fujimura gallants Heartwell hero heroine Holland husband hypocrisy hypocritical Ibid Immorality and Profaneness Jantz Jeremy Collier Lady Wishfort libertine literary Literature London Love for Love lovers Markley marriage marry Marwood matrimony Millamant Millamant's Mirabell Mirabell's mistress moral Muir nature Nevertheless Old Batchelour op.cit Parfitt playwrights pleasure pretended protagonists Prue Puritans Puschmann-Nalenz rake rake-heroes reform regarded relationship Restoration comedy Restoration Fop reveals ridiculous satire Schneider sexual Sharma Short View Silvia Sir Rowland Sir Sampson Sir Wilfull social society stage Tattle thereby truewits Vainlove Vainlove's Valentine Valentine's virtue Weele wife William Congreve wit comedy Wittol witty Witwoud woman women World WW II Wycherley young