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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... presented as a schemer does not appear morally superior to Fainall . Nevertheless his pretences and plots are not ends in themselves but serve only as a means to reach his aims and get the hand of the beautiful and charming Millamant ...
... presented as a schemer does not appear morally superior to Fainall . Nevertheless his pretences and plots are not ends in themselves but serve only as a means to reach his aims and get the hand of the beautiful and charming Millamant ...
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... presented as unfashionable , but as silly and intellectually inferior . The old , who sometimes border on senility , are associated with narrow- mindedness , authoritarianism , stubbornness , and a lack of wisdom and prudence . Their ...
... presented as unfashionable , but as silly and intellectually inferior . The old , who sometimes border on senility , are associated with narrow- mindedness , authoritarianism , stubbornness , and a lack of wisdom and prudence . Their ...
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... presented to the Graduate Committee of Lehigh University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English . Michigan - London : University Microfilms , Ann Arbor 1974 . HOLLAND , Norman N. The First Modern Comedies . The ...
... presented to the Graduate Committee of Lehigh University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English . Michigan - London : University Microfilms , Ann Arbor 1974 . HOLLAND , Norman N. The First Modern Comedies . The ...
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Jeremy Colliers A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness | 5 |
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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