William Mountfort's Greenwich Park (1691): A Critical Edition

ISBN-13: 9783034341776 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 252 str.

Jesús Correa Sánchez

Opis

This annotated modern-spelling text seeks to make accessible an amusing Restoration comedy which has never been published in a critical edition. The introduction offers a thorough analysis of the way in which Greenwich Park articulates processes of evolution on several levels: literary models, moral values and geopolitical displacement.

Spis treści

1. William Mountfort and His Time
2. Greenwich Park and Restoration Comedy

3. Stage History

4. The Text.

O autorze

Jesús Correa Sánchez holds an MA in English literature from Indiana University and a PhD in the same field from the Universidad de Sevilla. He has taught different courses at Indiana University, the Language Institute of the Universidad de Sevilla, the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, and the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). He is a member of the Restoration Comedy Project, which aims to catalogue all the comedies, farces, burlesques and drolls from the Restoration period in a comprehensive database. His research interests include the stylistic evolution of the genre from the 1660s to the late 17th century and the use of private and public space in the Restoration comedy.