English Drama, 1660-1700Clarendon Press, 1996 - 503 páginas Derek Hughes's magisterial work forms a close critical study of all the surviving plays written and professionally premiered in England between 1660 and 1700. This extremely readable volume analyses many individual texts, often in detail and for the first time, and also places them within the whole range of contemporary theatrical output, with its diversity of outlook and constant shifts in fashion and subject. Thus The Country-Wife (1675) and The Man of Mode (1676) are treated not as typical 'Restoration Comedies' but as almost unique plays, profoundly different even from each other, which would have been unimaginable even two years earlier or later than the time of their appearance. Hughes also presents innovative work on the political, intellectual, and social background of the corpus, with extensive discussion of its treatment of women and the contribution of women dramatists. |
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... Behn portrays Bellmour as joining Sir Timothy Tawdrey , the fop of the title , in a sordid brothel and courting the ... Behn's world , women are the victims even of fools . The order to which the play moves is thus partial and ...
... Behn portrays Bellmour as joining Sir Timothy Tawdrey , the fop of the title , in a sordid brothel and courting the ... Behn's world , women are the victims even of fools . The order to which the play moves is thus partial and ...
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... Behn's interest in the deep ties between the psychology of marriage and of prostitution , the common element of barter is also once again stressed , most obviously in a widespread eagerness to marry a rich dwarf and a rich giantess ...
... Behn's interest in the deep ties between the psychology of marriage and of prostitution , the common element of barter is also once again stressed , most obviously in a widespread eagerness to marry a rich dwarf and a rich giantess ...
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... Behn , did not long sur- vive it , and was dead by the time her fine tragicomedy The Widow Ranter ( November 1689 ) ... Behn's earliest plays , and indeed its preoccupation with the Amazonian figure provides a link with what was probably ...
... Behn , did not long sur- vive it , and was dead by the time her fine tragicomedy The Widow Ranter ( November 1689 ) ... Behn's earliest plays , and indeed its preoccupation with the Amazonian figure provides a link with what was probably ...
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