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English Drama 1660-1700

By Derek Hughes

English Drama 1660-1700 Drama

English Drama 1660-1700

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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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
516
Release Date:
1996-07-25
Publication Date:
1996-03-28
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198119747
ISBN13:
9780198119746
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
980 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
35 cm
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