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The development of English drama in the late seventeenth century / Robert D. Hume.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press : Oxford University Press, 2010Edition: Reprinted editionDescription: xv, 525 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780198117995
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 822.409 HUM 22
Contents:
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 -- The varieties 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.
Summary: A full scale account of Restoration drama, following the changing patterns of drama decade by decade from 1660 to 1710. The author explores the diversity of the plays, carrying out a detailed survey of some 500 of them.
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Reprint of the 1976 ed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- The varieties 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.

A full scale account of Restoration drama, following the changing patterns of drama decade by decade from 1660 to 1710. The author explores the diversity of the plays, carrying out a detailed survey of some 500 of them.

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