skip to content
English drama, 1660-1700 Preview this item
ClosePreview this item
  • Preview this Item (Questia)

English drama, 1660-1700

Author: Derek Hughes
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
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  Read more...
Rating:

(not yet rated) 0 with reviews - Be the first.

 

Find a copy in the library

Retrieving... Finding libraries that hold this item...

Details

Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Hughes, Derek, 1944-
English drama, 1660-1700.
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996
(OCoLC)603810275
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.
More information:

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.

Reviews

User-contributed reviews
Retrieving weRead reviews...
Retrieving GoodReads reviews...
Retrieving Amazon reviews...

Tags

Be the first.
Confirm this request

You may have already requested this item. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway.

Close Window

Please sign in to WorldCat 

Don't have an account? You can easily create a free account.