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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... merely based on privilege and duty . " By claiming absolute power over his offspring , Sir Sampson turns legitimate patriarchal authority into illegitimate and unnatural tyranny , asserts Markley . Yet Sir Sampson , whose power is merely ...
... merely based on privilege and duty . " By claiming absolute power over his offspring , Sir Sampson turns legitimate patriarchal authority into illegitimate and unnatural tyranny , asserts Markley . Yet Sir Sampson , whose power is merely ...
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... merely becomes a puppet in the hands of Angelica , who exploits his weakness in order to achieve her aims . Like all acquisitive characters , he is exposed , ridiculed , and punished in the end . Sir Sampson's son Valentine seems in no ...
... merely becomes a puppet in the hands of Angelica , who exploits his weakness in order to achieve her aims . Like all acquisitive characters , he is exposed , ridiculed , and punished in the end . Sir Sampson's son Valentine seems in no ...
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... merely aspire after their fortune but really love them . In a similar way , the gallants are wary of the female sex and try to detect the ladies ' real selves behind the social mask . Thus in the course of the comedy the lovers are ...
... merely aspire after their fortune but really love them . In a similar way , the gallants are wary of the female sex and try to detect the ladies ' real selves behind the social mask . Thus in the course of the comedy the lovers are ...
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Jeremy Colliers A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness | 5 |
II | 16 |
RuralUrban | 42 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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