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Whether for love or ambition, for parental approval or reasons of state, marriage has complicated the lives of all who enter into it. First performed in 1671, Dryden’s Marriage à la Mode portrays the motives high and low that make marriage the pivotal institution of a nation.
Like Dryden’s best tragicomedies, Marriage à la Mode has a double plot. The hopes that marriage excites and the regrets it suffers, the possibilities it opens and the opportunities it denies, its potential nobility and its vulnerability to decay provided Dryden with plentiful dramatic material. Comedy and pathos intersect in plots that entangle and surprise like marriage itself.
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"In the romantic heroic word, truth must out and the real king be discovered; in the sexual comedy the players also discover a larger design, which keeps tripping them up, bringing them to a fuller sense of human reality."—The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography (The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography)
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- PublisherUniversity of Nebraska Press
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 0803203861
- ISBN 13 9780803203860
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages144
- EditorAuburn Mark S.
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Marriage à la Mode (Regents Restoration Drama Series)
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University of Nebraska Press, 1981
ISBN 10: 0803203861
ISBN 13: 9780803203860
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