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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... reveals , as previously noted , the high spirits of these youthful gallants : Thereby the pleasure - business dialectic is illustrated : Vainlove initiates his conversation with Bellmour by „ Shewing Letters " and describing them as ...
... reveals , as previously noted , the high spirits of these youthful gallants : Thereby the pleasure - business dialectic is illustrated : Vainlove initiates his conversation with Bellmour by „ Shewing Letters " and describing them as ...
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... reveals his monetary attitude at the close of Act I : „ ... you ... are bound , " he tells Bellmour , „ For Love ́s Island : I , for the Golden Coast . / May each succeed in what he wishes most . “ ( TOB I , i , 47 ) This statement ...
... reveals his monetary attitude at the close of Act I : „ ... you ... are bound , " he tells Bellmour , „ For Love ́s Island : I , for the Golden Coast . / May each succeed in what he wishes most . “ ( TOB I , i , 47 ) This statement ...
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... reveals her prostituted conception of love and marriage : 343 You [ Mrs. Foresight ] have a Rich Husband , and are provided for , I am at a loss , and have no great Stock either of Fortune or Reputation ; and therefore must look sharply ...
... reveals her prostituted conception of love and marriage : 343 You [ Mrs. Foresight ] have a Rich Husband , and are provided for , I am at a loss , and have no great Stock either of Fortune or Reputation ; and therefore must look sharply ...
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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