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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... sign in The Country- Wife has long been recognized.29 Characters repeatedly ponder the ' meaning ' of each other's words and actions , and sign is itself a recurrent term . But the signs repeatedly demonstrate their own insufficiency ...
... sign in The Country- Wife has long been recognized.29 Characters repeatedly ponder the ' meaning ' of each other's words and actions , and sign is itself a recurrent term . But the signs repeatedly demonstrate their own insufficiency ...
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... sign which bemuses Sir Mannerly on his arrival in the real city : the single name shared by two quite distinct people . But there are problems even in representational signs : in pic- tures , which form one of the commonest kinds of sign ...
... sign which bemuses Sir Mannerly on his arrival in the real city : the single name shared by two quite distinct people . But there are problems even in representational signs : in pic- tures , which form one of the commonest kinds of sign ...
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... signs evoke other signs which nullify the signs by which they are created : an elegant vicious circle which again forbids any straightforward progression from signifier to signified . There is no escape from the tyranny of signs . When ...
... signs evoke other signs which nullify the signs by which they are created : an elegant vicious circle which again forbids any straightforward progression from signifier to signified . There is no escape from the tyranny of signs . When ...
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Astraea Redux? Drama 16601668 | 30 |
Tragedy 16681676 | 78 |
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