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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... young gallants and ladies on the question of matrimony . They believe in arranged marriages and try to hinder the young people in their attempts to pursue the subject of their desires and to marry a partner of their choice . Jealous of ...
... young gallants and ladies on the question of matrimony . They believe in arranged marriages and try to hinder the young people in their attempts to pursue the subject of their desires and to marry a partner of their choice . Jealous of ...
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... young gallants . He refuses to believe himself too old for an amorous liaison but laments over his own sad condition : Oh Manhood , where art thou ! What am I come to ? A Womans Toy ; at these years ! Death , a bearded Baby for a Girl ...
... young gallants . He refuses to believe himself too old for an amorous liaison but laments over his own sad condition : Oh Manhood , where art thou ! What am I come to ? A Womans Toy ; at these years ! Death , a bearded Baby for a Girl ...
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... young gallants the old lady's craving for sexual pleasure is both unseasonable and repulsive : „ An old Woman's ... young women for a partner of the rising generation . Imprisoned in her own fantasy she is desperately striving for an ...
... young gallants the old lady's craving for sexual pleasure is both unseasonable and repulsive : „ An old Woman's ... young women for a partner of the rising generation . Imprisoned in her own fantasy she is desperately striving for an ...
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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