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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... Sheridan • Wilde • Shaw • Coward • Orton • Ayckbourn • and many lesser known figures Alexander Leggatt is Professor of English at University College, University of Toronto, and is the author of Shakespeare's Political Drama (1988 ...
... Sheridan • Wilde • Shaw • Coward • Orton • Ayckbourn • and many lesser known figures Alexander Leggatt is Professor of English at University College, University of Toronto, and is the author of Shakespeare's Political Drama (1988 ...
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... Sheridan could also see, among others, 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 ...
... Sheridan could also see, among others, 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 ...
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... Sheridan Whiteside, who has wrought havoc in the lives of the Middle American family in whose home he is stranded by a broken ankle, walks out the door to universal relief, slips on the front step, and breaks his ankle again. According ...
... Sheridan Whiteside, who has wrought havoc in the lives of the Middle American family in whose home he is stranded by a broken ankle, walks out the door to universal relief, slips on the front step, and breaks his ankle again. According ...
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... Sheridan's The Rivals (1775), the onstage appearance of a motorcar in Shaw's Man and Superman (1905). Seen from a distance, English comedy changes its character as it moves through history: learned and scatological in the Tudor period ...
... Sheridan's The Rivals (1775), the onstage appearance of a motorcar in Shaw's Man and Superman (1905). Seen from a distance, English comedy changes its character as it moves through history: learned and scatological in the Tudor period ...
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... Sheridan and Wilde) and is only a memory in the twentieth. In practice, however, words like 'flourish' and 'decline' describe not what a genre does but how far it satisfies the taste of the writer who is describing it; unless, of course ...
... Sheridan and Wilde) and is only a memory in the twentieth. In practice, however, words like 'flourish' and 'decline' describe not what a genre does but how far it satisfies the taste of the writer who is describing it; unless, of course ...
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