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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... joke about a prolific family called De la Fool (II.ii.p.34). The habit persists in the twentieth century. Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing (1982) contains half-heard echoes of Noël Coward's Private Lives (1930): the playwright Henry tries ...
... joke about a prolific family called De la Fool (II.ii.p.34). The habit persists in the twentieth century. Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing (1982) contains half-heard echoes of Noël Coward's Private Lives (1930): the playwright Henry tries ...
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... joke, but not killed it. In N.F. Simpson's One Way Pendulum (1959), Mrs Groomkirby, from behind the proscenium arch, takes with an ill grace the audience's observation of the set which is her living room: 'They'll have to take it as ...
... joke, but not killed it. In N.F. Simpson's One Way Pendulum (1959), Mrs Groomkirby, from behind the proscenium arch, takes with an ill grace the audience's observation of the set which is her living room: 'They'll have to take it as ...
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... joking about, but Lady Teazle, the laugh was heard outside the theatre and down the street.50 Once again a closed space has opened on an embarrassing revelation. But the audience's laugh can be an easy one: Lady Teazle is alone behind ...
... joking about, but Lady Teazle, the laugh was heard outside the theatre and down the street.50 Once again a closed space has opened on an embarrassing revelation. But the audience's laugh can be an easy one: Lady Teazle is alone behind ...
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