The Comedy of Manners from Sheridan to Maugham
Title | The Comedy of Manners from Sheridan to Maugham PDF eBook |
Author | Newell Wheeler Sawyer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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The Comedy of Manners from Sheridan to Maugham
Title | The Comedy of Manners from Sheridan to Maugham PDF eBook |
Author | Newell W. Sawyer |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2016-11-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1512806560 |
In the two centuries between the first performance of The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and the outbreak of the First World War, the stage provided an accurate mirror of the changing mores of English society. "High comedy," Newell W. Sawyer writes, "views man as a social animal in the midst of his fellows, with customs, conventions, and traditions of his own devising, and prods him gently or mockingly, as he stands confounded by that which he has made." The comedy of manners became, from its prototype, a dramatic category reflecting the life, thought, and manners of upper-class society, faithful to its traditions and philosophy, and as such offers an ideal medium for such a study as Professor Sawyer has here undertaken. The result is a book that is at once entertaining and serious, a study of two centuries of the British stage,
The Comedy of Manners from Sheridan to Maugham
Title | The Comedy of Manners from Sheridan to Maugham PDF eBook |
Author | Newell Wheeler Sawyer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1931 |
Genre | Comedies of manners, English |
ISBN |
Comedy of Manners
Title | Comedy of Manners PDF eBook |
Author | David L. Hirst |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 138 |
Release | 2017-07-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1351629905 |
First published in 1979, this book traces comedy of manners from the 1660s to the then present — a scope beyond the traditional focus on the Restoration and early twentieth century. It uncovers an underestimated subversive potential and socially critical force in this particularly English dramatic form, emphasising the distinctive subjects and style that distinguish it from more general forms of witty social satire. The author discusses the major comic dramatists of the post-Restoration period; reassesses the significance of Sheridan, Wilde and Coward; and examines the continuation of the tradition in modern writers. This book will be of interest to students of English literature and drama.
Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature
Title | Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | M. Fludernik |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2014-11-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1137404000 |
Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature is the first study to provide transhistorical perspectives and cutting-edge critical analyses of debates concerning idleness in English literature. The topicality of the subject is emphasized by two pieces of sociological analysis.
Comedy, an Annotated Bibliography of Theory and Criticism
Title | Comedy, an Annotated Bibliography of Theory and Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | James E. Evans |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780810819870 |
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Dramatic Bibliography
Title | Dramatic Bibliography PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | 清华大学出版社有限公司 |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 1933 |
Genre | Bibliographical literature |
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