The Comedy of Manners (Routledge Library Editions: Comedy) - Softcover

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Muir, Kenneth

 
9781032215655: The Comedy of Manners (Routledge Library Editions: Comedy)
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ISBN 10: 1032215658 ISBN 13: 9781032215655
Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

Originally published in 1970, this title starts with an introduction, in which Professor Muir distinguishes between the Comedy of Manners and other types of comedy and traces its origins in English and French literature, there are then chapters on the major writers – Etherege, Dryden, Wycherly, Congreve, Vanbrugh, Farquhar – and on Jeremy Collier’s attack on the immorality and profaneness of the plays. This is followed by a discussion of the reasons for the decline of comedy in the eighteenth century and an account of its revival by Sheridan and, belatedly, by Wilde. Professor Muir takes issue with a number of recent critics on the dramatic value of the plays.

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Kenneth Muir

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1032215658
ISBN 13 
9781032215655
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
176

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Publisher: Prometheus Books, 1970
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