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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hughes, Derek, 1944- English drama, 1660-1700. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996 (OCoLC)603810275 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Derek Hughes |
| ISBN: | 0198119747 9780198119746 |
| OCLC Number: | 33104110 |
| Description: | viii, 503 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. 'To call every thing into question': Influences on the Drama -- 2. Astraea Redux? Drama, 1660-1668 -- 3. 'Where is Astrea fled?': Tragedy, 1668-1676 -- 4. 'The freedoms of the present': Comedy, 1668-1676 -- 5. 'A Song expressing the Change of their Condition': Tragicomedy and Opera, 1668-1676 -- 6. 'Senseless Riot, Neronian Gambols': Comedy, 1676-1682 -- 7. 'Not one mark of former Majesty': Tragedy, 1676-1682 -- 8. 'Dire is the Dearth and Famine on the Stage': Drama, 1682-1688 -- 9. 'The surprising success of the Baudy Batchelour': Comedy, 1688-1695 -- 10. 'A Cause like yours would summon the Just Gods': Tragedy, 1688-1695 -- 11. 'Madam, You Have done Exemplary Justice': Comedy, 1695-1700 -- 12. 'Scarce a good One Play'd': Tragedy, 1695-1700. |
| Responsibility: | Derek Hughes. |
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Abstract:
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.
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