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Restoration Comedy: The Relapse, the Country Wife, the Rover, Rake, the Beaux' Stratagem, Bellamira, the Way of the World, Thomaso, Fop

Restoration Comedy: The Relapse, the Country Wife, the Rover, Rake, the Beaux' Stratagem, Bellamira, the Way of the World, Thomaso, Fop


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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: The Relapse, The Country Wife, The Rover, Rake, The Beaux' Stratagem, Bellamira, The Way of the World, Thomaso, Fop, The Virtuoso, The Mistaken Husband, The Mock Tempest, Marriage a la mode, The Recruiting Officer, The Wild Gallant, The Playhouse to Be Let, The Plain Dealer, The City Heiress, The Provoked Wife, The Assignation, The Man of Mode, The Emperor of the Moon. Excerpt: Restoration comedy refers to English comedies written and performed in the Restoration period from 1660 to 1710. After public stage performances had been banned for 18 years by the Puritan regime, the re-opening of the theatres in 1660 signalled a renaissance of English drama. Restoration comedy is notorious for its sexual explicitness, a quality encouraged by Charles II (1660-1685) personally and by the rakish aristocratic ethos of his court. The socially diverse audiences included both aristocrats, their servants and hangers-on, and a substantial middle-class segment. These playgoers were attracted to the comedies by up-to-the-minute topical writing, by crowded and bustling plots, by the introduction of the first professional actresses, and by the rise of the first celebrity actors. This period saw the first professional woman playwright, Aphra Behn. The sumptuously decorated Dorset Gardens playhouse in 1673, with one of the sets for Elkannah Settle's The Empress of Morocco. The apron stage at the front which allowed intimate audience contact is not visible in the picture (the artist is standing on it).Charles II was an active and interested patron of the drama. Soon after his restoration, in 1660, he granted exclusive play-staging rights, so-called Royal patents, to the King's Company and the Duke's Company, led by two middle-aged Caroline playwrights, Thomas Killigrew and William Davenant. The patentees scrambled for performance rights to...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155267340
  • Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 108
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Weight: 209 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1155267346
  • Publisher Date: 04 Sep 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The Relapse, the Country Wife, the Rover, Rake, the Beaux' Stratagem, Bellamira, the Way of the World, Thomaso, Fop
  • Width: 189 mm


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