English Stage Comedy 1490-1990Alexander Leggatt Routledge, 31. 1. 2002 - 192 strán (strany) First published in 2004. English stage comedy has weathered centuries of social and theatrical change. How did it survive? English Stage Comedy 1490–1990 is a unique and beautifully written study of the comedy of the English stage from the Tudor period to the late twentieth century. Organized thematically, it shows how this remarkably enduring genre has dealt with the tensions of social life, using its conventions as tools for social inquiry. Through an examination of comedy Alexander Leggatt demonstrates that an approach through genre, neglected in recent criticism, can have much to say about our current concerns with the relations between literature and society. English Stage Comedy 1490–1990 surveys five centuries of classic comic drama, focusing on major playwrights such as: Shakespeare, Jonson, Etherege, Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Wilde, Shaw, Coward, Orton, Ayckbourn and many lesser-known figures. |
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... Jonson, with or without formal acknowledgement. In John Crowne's The Married Beau (1694) old Thorneback boasts of his continuing sexual prowess by quoting Bartholomew Fair (1614): 'I'm like Ben Jonson's Ursly, the Pig-Woman, / 'Gad, I ...
... Jonson, with or without formal acknowledgement. In John Crowne's The Married Beau (1694) old Thorneback boasts of his continuing sexual prowess by quoting Bartholomew Fair (1614): 'I'm like Ben Jonson's Ursly, the Pig-Woman, / 'Gad, I ...
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... Jonson, Fletcher, Congreve and Centlivre.6 As manager of Drury Lane, Sheridan prepared the ground for The School for ... Jonson's Volpone (1606), one of the grimmest of English comedies, promises to rub the audience's cheeks with salt ...
... Jonson, Fletcher, Congreve and Centlivre.6 As manager of Drury Lane, Sheridan prepared the ground for The School for ... Jonson's Volpone (1606), one of the grimmest of English comedies, promises to rub the audience's cheeks with salt ...
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... Jonson's promise of laughter there is a clear edge of cruelty. As a student of mine, Dena Bain, once put it in class ... Jonson promises (or threatens) to make us laugh by rubbing our cheeks with it. Bergson writes of the bitterness that ...
... Jonson's promise of laughter there is a clear edge of cruelty. As a student of mine, Dena Bain, once put it in class ... Jonson promises (or threatens) to make us laugh by rubbing our cheeks with it. Bergson writes of the bitterness that ...
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... it could be, given the state of the law before the Marriage Act of 1753, to determine whether a couple was actually married or not.22 In Jonson's Epicoene the question of whether or not Morose is married to the 6 FIVE CENTURIES OF A GENRE.
... it could be, given the state of the law before the Marriage Act of 1753, to determine whether a couple was actually married or not.22 In Jonson's Epicoene the question of whether or not Morose is married to the 6 FIVE CENTURIES OF A GENRE.
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... Jonson's Epicoene (1609), Dauphine whips off Epicoene's peruke and tells Morose flatly, 'You have married a boy' (V.iv.204–5), at once solving the play's problem and calling the bluff of a stage convention on which all plays of the time ...
... Jonson's Epicoene (1609), Dauphine whips off Epicoene's peruke and tells Morose flatly, 'You have married a boy' (V.iv.204–5), at once solving the play's problem and calling the bluff of a stage convention on which all plays of the time ...
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