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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... original version of the play had to be with- drawn because it had offended some unnamed but manifestly influential people.13 But more soundly established norms of gentility are also scrutinized , and in The Humorists Shadwell begins his ...
... original version of the play had to be with- drawn because it had offended some unnamed but manifestly influential people.13 But more soundly established norms of gentility are also scrutinized , and in The Humorists Shadwell begins his ...
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... original . His opening portrays royal courts as predatory jungles of ruthless place - seekers , and in the concluding masque the original's praise of pleasure as respite from toil is vulgarized into a paean to ' Loves great Debauch ...
... original . His opening portrays royal courts as predatory jungles of ruthless place - seekers , and in the concluding masque the original's praise of pleasure as respite from toil is vulgarized into a paean to ' Loves great Debauch ...
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... original play as a ready - made satire on the final years of Charles II's reign , 16 but the applicability is not really close , and the added musical numbers refer rather to the immediate present : Dioclesian is praised as a liberator ...
... original play as a ready - made satire on the final years of Charles II's reign , 16 but the applicability is not really close , and the added musical numbers refer rather to the immediate present : Dioclesian is praised as a liberator ...
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Influences | 1 |
Astraea Redux? Drama 16601668 | 30 |
Tragedy 16681676 | 78 |
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Otras 6 secciones no mostradas
Términos y frases comunes
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