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Restoration Comedy: Crises of Desire and Identity
Gertrude Stein
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Description for Restoration Comedy: Crises of Desire and Identity
Hardcover. Edward Burns here provides a new account of the origins and nature of Restoration comedy as a distinct genre. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 521.
What is Restoration comedy? What pleasure does it offer its audience, and what significance does it find in exploring that pleasure? Edward Burns here provides a new account of the origins and nature of Restoration comedy as a distinct genre. The book enlarges the usual focus with a wider range of writers than the conventional ossified canon taking in a revaluation of many rarely studied dramatists, a reconsideration of pastoral, and the instatement of women writers as major contributors to the culture of the age. It offers a substantial and original interpretation of one of the most intriguing of seventeenth-century ... Read more
What is Restoration comedy? What pleasure does it offer its audience, and what significance does it find in exploring that pleasure? Edward Burns here provides a new account of the origins and nature of Restoration comedy as a distinct genre. The book enlarges the usual focus with a wider range of writers than the conventional ossified canon taking in a revaluation of many rarely studied dramatists, a reconsideration of pastoral, and the instatement of women writers as major contributors to the culture of the age. It offers a substantial and original interpretation of one of the most intriguing of seventeenth-century ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Condition
New
Weight
521g
Number of Pages
283
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333397473
SKU
V9780333397473
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