Name: The Development of English Drama in the Late Seventeenth Century par Robert D. Hume (Professor of English, Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University)
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The Development of English Drama in the Late Seventeenth Century Robert D. Hume (Professor of English, Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University)

Originally published in 1976, this highly acclaimed, full-scale account of Restoration drama is now available for the first time in a paperback edition. Following the changing patterns of drama decade by decade from 1660 to 1710, the author fully explores the diversity of the plays as they reflect the fads and fashions of a small, highly competitive theatre world constantly buffeted by political and social change. Anxious to avoid misleading generalizations - such as the dominance of `comedy of manners' and the rise of `sentimental' drama - Hume carries out a detailed, chronological survey of some five hundred plays, chronicling the emergence of numerous dramatic modes and their interaction and mutual influence. This meticulous documentation is set within the context of a critical discussion of theories of comedy and tragedy prevalent in the period.

The Development of English Drama in the Late Seventeenth Century Avis

`The scope and sympathy of Professor Hume's study make it the most important book on Restoration drama to have appeared in our century ... Professor Hume's central concern... was to give a concrete and detailed picture of the Restoration dramatic tradition as it existed historically and to examine the ways in which it was experienced by the theatre-goers of four reigns. In this he is triumphantly successful.' Harold Love, Modern Language Review `a comprehensive survey of critical history as well as of the plays of fifty years. It is well-expressed, well-constructed, authoritative, and indispensable.' T. W. Craik, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Sommaire

Part 1 The dramatic types in theory and practice: What is restoration drama; theories of comedy; the nature of the comic drama; theories of serious drama. Part 2 The development of the play types 1660-1710: The establishment of Carolean drama 1660-1669; sex, horror, farce, and the heroic inclination in the 70s; the political 80s; the double tradition of the 90s; the emergence of Augustan drama 1697-1710.

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GOR004113013

ISBN 13

9780198117995

ISBN 10

019811799X

Titre

The Development of English Drama in the Late Seventeenth Century Robert D. Hume (Professor of English, Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University)

Auteur

Robert D. Hume (Professor of English, Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University)

Série

Clarendon Paperbacks

État

Occasion - Bon état

Relié

Broché

Éditeur

Oxford University Press

Année de publication

19900510

Nombre de pages

544

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N/A

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