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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... comedy. We need a sense of literature both as social process and as form, each factor feeding and modifying the other. Stage comedy, at once socially aware and highly formalized, is an ideal site for such a study. Part of comedy's ...
... comedy. We need a sense of literature both as social process and as form, each factor feeding and modifying the other. Stage comedy, at once socially aware and highly formalized, is an ideal site for such a study. Part of comedy's ...
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... comedy, however misleading as an account of eighteenth-century drama, is a compelling statement of conventional wisdom ... comedy's two purposes, laughter and the happy ending.15 In its normal operation the function of comedy is to make ...
... comedy, however misleading as an account of eighteenth-century drama, is a compelling statement of conventional wisdom ... comedy's two purposes, laughter and the happy ending.15 In its normal operation the function of comedy is to make ...
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... comedy's built-in contradiction between laughter and the happy ending. The strong-minded heroines of comedy work to get their men on their own terms, knowing the ultimate price of getting them is to dwindle into wives, losing the ...
... comedy's built-in contradiction between laughter and the happy ending. The strong-minded heroines of comedy work to get their men on their own terms, knowing the ultimate price of getting them is to dwindle into wives, losing the ...
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... comedy an age of licentiousness; but 'the demographic record' (illegitimate births as an index of illicit sex in an ... comedy's thinking is done through them. These qualities of economy and stylization mark a sharp difference between ...
... comedy an age of licentiousness; but 'the demographic record' (illegitimate births as an index of illicit sex in an ... comedy's thinking is done through them. These qualities of economy and stylization mark a sharp difference between ...
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... comedy'; Eric Bentley pronounces comedy extinct or senile; J.L. Styan declares that to revive the old tradition now would be 'an affront to the dignity of the atomic-age audience'.29 As I hope to show, these reports of comedy's death ...
... comedy'; Eric Bentley pronounces comedy extinct or senile; J.L. Styan declares that to revive the old tradition now would be 'an affront to the dignity of the atomic-age audience'.29 As I hope to show, these reports of comedy's death ...
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