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Author | : Deborah Payne Fisk |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2000-05-11 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521588126 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Fourteen specially commissioned essays provide essential information about staging, playwrights, themes and genres in the drama of the Restoration.
Author | : Allardyce Nicoll |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : |
Download A History of Restoration Drama 1660-1700 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Author | : Susan J. Owen |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780719049675 |
Download Perspectives on Restoration Drama Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book introduces students to drama from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the early 18th Century. Susan Owen offers representative coverage of new forms of drama in this period, and of ways in which old forms are altered. Her study covers heroic drama, comedy, tragedy, tragi-comedy, and Shakespeare adaptations, by focusing on specific 'dramatic highlights' and giving close reading of particular plays.
Author | : Derek Hughes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2004-11-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139826948 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Traditionally known as the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn has now emerged as one of the major figures of the Restoration. She provided more plays for the stage than any other author and greatly influenced the development of the novel with her ground-breaking fiction, especially Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister and Oroonoko, the first English novel set in America. Behn's work straddles the genres: beside drama and fiction, she also excelled in poetry and she made several important translations from French libertine and scientific works. This Companion discusses and introduces her writings in all these fields and provides the critical tools with which to judge their aesthetic and historical importance. It also includes a full bibliography, a detailed chronology and a description of the known facts of her life. The Companion will be an essential tool for the study of this increasingly important writer and thinker.
Author | : Deborah Payne Fisk |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2010-12-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0820337897 |
Download Cultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Theater Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Ranging in approach from feminist to historicist, the eleven essays in this collection share the culturalist premise that the drama of late Stuart and early Georgian England helped to constitute the dominant ideology of the period. The contributors' varied approaches allow for the reconsideration of libertinism, the politics of sexual desire, and other classic issues, as well as such newer concerns as the social construction of the first English actresses, empiricism as an emergent epistemological discourse, cultural anxiety about novelty and repetition, and shifting tropes of inherent worth. By reading well-known works in unexpected ways and focusing on less frequently studied dramatists, from Sedley, Motteux, Pix, and Behn to Manley, Trotter, and Shadwell, the contributors also test the limits of the canon. In addition, they suggest that earlier critical perceptions, perhaps even more than the “innate worth” of the plays, determined the shape of the canon. These essays present a different image of Restoration and eighteenth-century theater, one that reveals how the drama was a site as important for the negotiation of cultural meaning as were novels and verse satires.
Author | : David Roberts |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2014-10-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1316147975 |
Download Restoration Plays and Players Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Introducing readers to the key texts, theatrical practice and context of late seventeenth-century drama, David Roberts combines literary and theatrical approaches to show how Restoration plays were written, performed, received and printed. Structured according to the 'life cycle' of the dramatic text, this book reproduces extracts from twenty-four of the most influential Restoration plays to provide readers with a comprehensive and colourful introduction to the period's drama. Roberts encourages readers to look beyond a limited canon of established plays and practice, and to see how Restoration Drama has been revived and adapted on the modern stage. Restoration Plays and Players is of great interest to undergraduate and non-specialist readers of seventeenth-century drama, Restoration literature and theatre studies.
Author | : Susan J. Owen |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2008-02-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781405176101 |
Download A Companion to Restoration Drama Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This Companion illustrates the vitality and diversity of dramatic work 1660 to 1710. Twenty-five essays by leading scholars in the field bring together the best recent insights into the full range of dramatic practice and innovation at the time. Introduces readers to the recent boom in scholarship that has revitalised Restoration drama Explores historical and cultural contexts, genres of Restoration drama, and key dramatists, among them Dryden and Behn
Author | : Susan J. Owen |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1996-11-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191584002 |
Download Restoration Theatre and Crisis Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Restoration Theatre and Crisis is a seminal study of the drama of the Restoration, in particular that of the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis. This was a time of unprecedented political partisanship in the theatre. This book cosniders all the known plays of this period, including works by Dryden and Behn, in their historical context. It examines the complex ways in which the drama both reflected and intervened in the political process, at a time when the crisis fractured an already fragile post-interregnum consensus, and modern party political methods first began to develop. Susan Owen discusses the ways in which Tory and Whig playwrights engaged in dramatic dialogue, deliberately commenting on and revising each other's themes and topics. The book also explores the arena of sexual politics, examining the political significance of themes such as disharmony in the family, and the importance of rape as a dramatic signifier of monstrosity associated with rebellion by the Tories and tyranny and popery by the Whigs. Restoration Theatre and Crisis considers the use of sexuality as a political discourse, and ways in which ideas about libertinism and constructions of masculinity and femininity intersect with political concerns in the drama. Thus the book bridges the gap between `gender-blind' political accounts and studies which have focused on gender themes in the drama in isolation from party politics.
Author | : Deborah C. Payne |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2024-05-31 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1009398210 |
Download The Business of English Restoration Theatre, 1660–1700 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Deborah C. Payne explores how the duopoly of 1660 impacted company practices, stagecraft, the box office, and actors and writers.
Author | : Tanya M. Caldwell |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2011-06-30 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1770482830 |
Download Popular Plays by Women in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This anthology offers a selection of popular dramatic works by female playwrights from Aphra Behn in the 1670s through Hannah Cowley in the later eighteenth century. These plays were successful as plays of their time, not just as plays by women, together providing evidence that women dramatists often managed better than their male counterparts to please diverse audiences, who were notoriously fickle as well as predisposed to oppose them. Accessible to both graduates and undergraduates, Popular Plays by Women shows how these playwrights captured audiences through wit, social awareness, and dramatic dexterity. As well as including the prologues and epilogues of the four plays presented, this anthology provides additional materials in which female playwrights discuss the prejudices and special difficulties they face.