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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... Shakespeare • Jonson • Etherege • Wycherley • Congreve • Vanbrugh • Goldsmith • Sheridan • Wilde • Shaw • Coward ... Shakespeare's Political Drama (1988, Routledge) and Jacobean Public Theatre (1992, Routledge). ENGLISH STAGE COMEDY ...
... Shakespeare • Jonson • Etherege • Wycherley • Congreve • Vanbrugh • Goldsmith • Sheridan • Wilde • Shaw • Coward ... Shakespeare's Political Drama (1988, Routledge) and Jacobean Public Theatre (1992, Routledge). ENGLISH STAGE COMEDY ...
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... Shakespeare, Jonson, Fletcher, Congreve and Centlivre.6 As manager of Drury Lane, Sheridan prepared the ground for The School for Scandal by staging revivals of Congreve.7 The repertory system that lasted into the nineteenth century ...
... Shakespeare, Jonson, Fletcher, Congreve and Centlivre.6 As manager of Drury Lane, Sheridan prepared the ground for The School for Scandal by staging revivals of Congreve.7 The repertory system that lasted into the nineteenth century ...
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... Shakespeare and his Elizabethan predecessors, satiric from Jonson (with an emphasis on money) to the Restoration (with an emphasis on manners and sex), genteel and sentimental through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, ironic in ...
... Shakespeare and his Elizabethan predecessors, satiric from Jonson (with an emphasis on money) to the Restoration (with an emphasis on manners and sex), genteel and sentimental through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, ironic in ...
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... Shakespeare stands apart from it.30 This generalization could easily be turned another way: since comedy concerns itself with courtship, marriage and the family, Shakespeare is right in the mainstream, and Jonson, with his relative lack ...
... Shakespeare stands apart from it.30 This generalization could easily be turned another way: since comedy concerns itself with courtship, marriage and the family, Shakespeare is right in the mainstream, and Jonson, with his relative lack ...
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... (Shakespeare and Jonson being the obvious examples) can write about very different worlds. We need to find a way of studying comedy and society that acknowledges the play of difference and continuity but does not depend on long narrative ...
... (Shakespeare and Jonson being the obvious examples) can write about very different worlds. We need to find a way of studying comedy and society that acknowledges the play of difference and continuity but does not depend on long narrative ...
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