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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... honour from the venture that he tells no one , not even Alibech . And so , in her ignorance of Guyomar's plan , Alibech approaches Odmar and plants the seed of treason in his mind . Guyomar's sortie succeeds , but its suc- cess is ...
... honour from the venture that he tells no one , not even Alibech . And so , in her ignorance of Guyomar's plan , Alibech approaches Odmar and plants the seed of treason in his mind . Guyomar's sortie succeeds , but its suc- cess is ...
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... honour , particularly the honour of the duellist and of the prostitute . But Payne — a friend of Aphra Behn - goes beyond Etherege and Dryden in the extent to which he allows women to inspect and test male codes . When two of the hero ...
... honour , particularly the honour of the duellist and of the prostitute . But Payne — a friend of Aphra Behn - goes beyond Etherege and Dryden in the extent to which he allows women to inspect and test male codes . When two of the hero ...
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... honour ' ) to buy their favours ( I , p . 114 ) . Yet it is the heroines , not the men , who are the true repositories of honour . It is Lucia who describes a duel as ' a Gentleman - like murder for . . . Honour ' ( V , p . 169 ) , and ...
... honour ' ) to buy their favours ( I , p . 114 ) . Yet it is the heroines , not the men , who are the true repositories of honour . It is Lucia who describes a duel as ' a Gentleman - like murder for . . . Honour ' ( V , p . 169 ) , and ...
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Influences | 1 |
Astraea Redux? Drama 16601668 | 30 |
Tragedy 16681676 | 78 |
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