Regicide and Restoration - English Tragicomedy, 1660-1671

Klappentext Focusing on the directions taken by tragicomedy and the court masque! this book accounts for the shift in genre during the decade following the return of Charles II. Zusammenfassung When the theatres reopened in 1660! tragedy! the greatest of the Renaissance genres! had vanished. Focusing on the directions taken by tragicomedy and the court masque! this book accounts for the shift in genre during the decade following the return of Charles II. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations and tables; A note on texts and dates; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The policies of restoration tragicomedy; 2. Theatrical restoration, 1660-1665; 3. The rhymed heroic masque; 4. The commercial market: genre as commodity; 5. The divided kings in divided tragicomedy; 6. The rhymed heroic apology of Roger Boyle; 7. John Dryden: Stuart mythographer and masque-maker; 8. Some conclusions and directions; Notes; The playwrights' works.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Klein Maguire, Nancy Klein (Folger Shakespeare Library Maguire, Maguire Nancy Klein
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.11.2005
• EAN: 9780521023733
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02373-3
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies