Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 294 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Cambridge companions to literature |
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Cambridge companions to literature
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Contents |
The theatre / Edward A. Langhans -- The performance / Joseph Roach -- Adaptations and revivals / Michael Dobson -- Comedy / Brian Corman -- Tragedy / Christopher J. Wheatley -- Tragicomedy / Nancy Klein Maguire -- Farce / Peter Holland -- Restoration and settlement: 1660 and 1688 / Derek Hughes -- Change, skepticism, and uncertainty / Jessica Munns -- Drama and political crisis / Susan J. Owen -- Spectacle, horror, and pathos / Jean I. Marsden -- Gender, sexuality, and marriage / Pat Gill -- Playwright versus priest: profanity and the wit of restoration comedy / Michael Cordner -- The canon and its critics / Robert Markley |
Summary |
This rich and varied portrait of the drama from 1660 to 1714 provides students with essential information about playwrights, staging and genres, situating them in the social and political culture of the time |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-288) and index |
Notes |
Mode of access: World Wide Web |
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English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
English drama -- Restoration, 1660-1700 -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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English drama -- Restoration, 1660-1700 -- History and criticism
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Literature and history -- Great Britain
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Theater -- England -- History -- 17th century -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Theater -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
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Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- History -- Restoration, 1660-1688
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Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung
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Einführung
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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History.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Fisk, Deborah C. Payne
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Cambridge University Press
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LC no. |
99015230 |
ISBN |
0511999364 |
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0521582156 |
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052158812X |
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1139796925 |
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1139815717 |
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9780511999369 |
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9780521582155 |
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9780521588126 |
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9781139796927 (e-book) |
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9781139815710 (e-book) |
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