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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Restoration comedies"”.
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A CRITICAL OLD-SPELLING EDITION OF APHRA BEHN'S "THE CITY HEIRESS"
… introduction also provides a background of the Restoration theater, defines the nature of the Restoration audience for which Behn wrote, and shows how her comedy is both similar to and significantly different from that of her contemporaries. A discussion of a number of Behn's plays demonstrates …
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Equal Ardor: Female Desire, Amatory Fiction, and the Recasting of the Novel, 1680--1760
… deals with issues left unresolved at the end of Restoration comedies, arguing that novels like Love-Letters between a Nobleman and His Sister provide a greater capacity to explore the dilemmas facing sexually desiring women than the five-act comic form. Chapter 3 analyzes similarities in Behn's …
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A Critical Edition Of Benjamin Hoadley's "the Suspicious Husband" (1747)
… humour than was generally found in the new comedies of the mid-century. Hoadly's play combined the wit and grace of the earlier Restoration comedies, with the accepted morality of the later plays. The analysis of its success necessarily deals with both the eighteenth-century and more recent …
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"Play Your Fan": Exploring Hand Props and Gender on the Restoration Stage Through the Country Wife, the Man of Mode, the Rover, and the Way of the World
<p>The full irony and wit of Restoration comedies relies not only on what characters communicate to each other, but also on what they communicate to the audience, both verbally and physically. Hand props help foster this important relationship with the audience as props provide moments of dramatic …