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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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... society 3 Loners 4 Other places 5 Parents and children 6 Negotiations 7 Comedy against itself Conclusion Notes Appendix Index ix 16 36 58 75 94 113 136 158 161 174 178 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS As this project has developed over the years I vii ...
... society 3 Loners 4 Other places 5 Parents and children 6 Negotiations 7 Comedy against itself Conclusion Notes Appendix Index ix 16 36 58 75 94 113 136 158 161 174 178 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS As this project has developed over the years I vii ...
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... society of his time; but in shaping that reaction he drew on his knowledge of what other comic writers had done before him. Even when he served a prison term for defacing library books, he was, he insisted, defending classic literature ...
... society of his time; but in shaping that reaction he drew on his knowledge of what other comic writers had done before him. Even when he served a prison term for defacing library books, he was, he insisted, defending classic literature ...
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... is to make the audience stop laughing. Comedy and society According to George Meredith, the comic poet 'addresses . . . men's intellects, with reference to the operation of the social world upon their 4 FIVE CENTURIES OF A GENRE.
... is to make the audience stop laughing. Comedy and society According to George Meredith, the comic poet 'addresses . . . men's intellects, with reference to the operation of the social world upon their 4 FIVE CENTURIES OF A GENRE.
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... society in which it operates. There are, however, certain cautions to issue about the relations between a play and its social period. Peter Laslett has acknowledged that 'the spontaneous assumptions in the literature of any age, the ...
... society in which it operates. There are, however, certain cautions to issue about the relations between a play and its social period. Peter Laslett has acknowledged that 'the spontaneous assumptions in the literature of any age, the ...
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