The Comedy of Manners

ISBN-13: 9781032215655 / Miękka / 2024 / 172 str.

Kenneth Muir

Opis

First published in 1970, the introduction distinguishes between the Comedy of Manners and other types of comedy and traces its origins in English and French literature, then chapters on the major writers – Etherege, Dryden, Wycherly, Congreve, Vanbrugh, Farquhar – and on Jeremy Collier’s attack on the immorality and profaneness of the plays.

Spis treści

Preface.  1. Introduction  2. Sir George Etherege  3. John Dryden  4. Shadwell and Otway  5. William Wycherley  6. Thomas Southerne  7. William Congreve  8. Sir John Vanbrugh  9. George Farquhar  10. Decline and Renewal.  Bibliography.  Index.

O autorze

Kenneth Muir