DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Restoration Comedy

Crises of Desire and Identity

Edward Burns author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:28th Jul '87

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Restoration Comedy cover

What is Restoration comedy? What pleasure does it offer its audience, and what significance does it find in exploring that pleasure? Edward Burns here provides a new account of the origins and nature of Restoration comedy as a distinct genre. The book enlarges the usual focus with a wider range of writers than the conventional ossified canon taking in a revaluation of many rarely studied dramatists, a reconsideration of pastoral, and the instatement of women writers as major contributors to the culture of the age. It offers a substantial and original interpretation of one of the most intriguing of seventeenth-century literature forms.

ISBN: 9780333397473

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 521g

283 pages