Comedy of Manners

First published in 1970, the introduction distinguishes between the Comedy of Manners and other types of comedy and traces its origins in English and French literature, 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.

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Kenneth Muir

Summary

First published in 1970, the introduction distinguishes between the Comedy of Manners and other types of comedy and traces its origins in English and French literature, 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.

Product details

• Authors: Muir Kenneth, Kenneth Muir
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 21.03.2024
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre
• EAN: 9781032215655
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3221565-5
• Pages: 172
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Comedy
• Subjects: French, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Comparative Literature, Literary studies: general, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Restoration drama, English literary criticism, satirical theatre, dramatic morality debates, Sheridan and Wilde analysis, history of English stage comedy