Three Restoration Comedies

Author : George Etherege
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141937742
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Restoration Comedies written by George Etherege and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-11-24 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the restoration of King Charles II to the British throne in 1660, dramatists experienced new freedom in an age that broke from the strict morality of puritan rule and in which elegance and wit became the chief virtues. Irreverent, licentious and cynical, the three plays collected here hold up a mirror to this dazzling era and satirize the gulf between appearances and reality. In Etherege's The Man of Mode (1676), the womanizing Dorimant meets his match when he falls in love with the unpretentious Harriet, while Wycherley's The Country Wife (c. 1675) depicts the rakish Horner who fakes impotence to fool trusting husbands into giving him easy access to their wives. And in Congreve's Love for Love (1695), the extravagant Valentine can only win his beloved Angelica if he loses his inheritance.

Author : Gamini Salgado
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Restoration Comedies written by Gamini Salgado and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank J. Morlock
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434443248
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadwell's Restoration Comedy: A Play in Three Acts written by Frank J. Morlock and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Shadwell (1642-1692) wrote a number of comic plays during his life. His drama featured broadly-based, coarse humor, and is filled with crude-but-vibrant characters drawn from the streets of Restoration London, individuals such as sharpers, whores, and eccentrics. His work is essentially plotless, but reeks with the odor of real people. Frank J. Morlock has created a composite drama (with plot!) from Shadwell's many works, but particularly employing pieces of The Woman Captain, The Squire of Alsatia, The Sullen Lovers, and The Virtuoso. The result is an hilarious masterpiece that's as timeless and as entertaining as the best of modern comedy.

Author : William Congreve
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Restoration Comedies written by William Congreve and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Restoration Comedies : The Man of Mode ; The Country Wife ; Love for Love written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031522095
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staging Restoration Comedy written by David Roberts and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anke Werckmeister
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656279667
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Restoration Comedies: Discussion of Love and Marriage written by Anke Werckmeister and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, Free University of Berlin (Institut für Englische Philologie), course: Restoration Comedies, language: English, abstract: Two Restoration Comedies that I want to discuss are William Wycherley’s The Country Wife (1675) and William Congreve’s Love for Love (1695). Both plays were written in a time when libertinism prevailed and male stereotypes like rakes and fops and female stereotypes like wives and virgins were popular. Needless to say, both plays not only deal with Restoration society but also with its problems, concerns, and difficulties at the time. And especially, Love for Love, which was written fairly at the end of the Restoration era, still is a conventional play in terms of being libertine-satirical but it already includes some features of sentimentalism. So it is not a postponement from libertinism to sentimentalism yet, but I want to argue in this essay that both plays are rather conventional libertine Restoration plays which include features of early sentimentalism.

Author : William Wycherley
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486153606
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Great Restoration Comedies written by William Wycherley and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy classics that defined a new era in drama: The Country Wife by William Wycherley; The Man of Mode by Sir George Etheredge; The Rover by Aphra Behn; and The Relapse by Sir John Vanbrugh.

Author : William Wycherley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780141883939
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Restoration Comedies written by William Wycherley and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Montague Summers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Restoration Comedies: The Parsons Wedding written by Montague Summers and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: