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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... look, under selected local conditions, at the ways in which this remarkably healthy organism has adapted and survived. To think of comedy as an organism, a single living entity, is in a literal sense misleading. There is no such thing ...
... look, under selected local conditions, at the ways in which this remarkably healthy organism has adapted and survived. To think of comedy as an organism, a single living entity, is in a literal sense misleading. There is no such thing ...
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... look something like Cherry in The Beaux' Stratagem?' (III.i.230–31), and the dialogue in which Marlow and Hastings mistake Hardcastle for an innkeeper closely echoes an equivalent scene in Farquhar's play (1707). When in She Stoops ...
... look something like Cherry in The Beaux' Stratagem?' (III.i.230–31), and the dialogue in which Marlow and Hastings mistake Hardcastle for an innkeeper closely echoes an equivalent scene in Farquhar's play (1707). When in She Stoops ...
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... of the grimmest of English comedies, promises to rub the audience's cheeks with salt 'till, red with laughter, / They shall look fresh a week after' (35–6). Goldsmith's 1772 essay comparing laughing and 3 FIVE CENTURIES OF A GENRE.
... of the grimmest of English comedies, promises to rub the audience's cheeks with salt 'till, red with laughter, / They shall look fresh a week after' (35–6). Goldsmith's 1772 essay comparing laughing and 3 FIVE CENTURIES OF A GENRE.
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... looks like a boy and who is called Ganymede, the slang term for a boy prostitute. The nominally heterosexual basis of the action is further unsettled when Rosalind, in the epilogue, says she would kiss the men in the audience 'If I were ...
... looks like a boy and who is called Ganymede, the slang term for a boy prostitute. The nominally heterosexual basis of the action is further unsettled when Rosalind, in the epilogue, says she would kiss the men in the audience 'If I were ...
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