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Examines the struggle between factions debating the morality and impact on public behaviour of the theatre following the Glorious Revolution, and the political significance of public feeling around this controversy.
List of contents
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations Introduction
Part I
Jeremy Collier's Stage Controversy and the Morality of Politics1. Collier's Conduct Manuals on Drama, 1698-1708
2. Collier and Reform Comedy before the Stage Controversy
3. Rectification of Names: Collier's Conduct Writing on Political Behaviour, 1689-1696
Part II
Playwrights' Stage Controversy:
Reform Comedy and the Politics of Morality4. Justifications for Revolution: Pseudo-Reform Comedy, 1698-1703
5.
The Careless Husband (1704) and Post-1688 Ambivalence toward the Code of Conduct
6. Reform Comedians' Discourses on Contractual Obedience, 1705-1728
7. Moral Reform and Loyalty: Anti-Jacobite Alliance between Playwright and Moralist
Conclusion
BibliographyIndex
About the author
Chih-Hsin Huang
Summary
Examines the struggle between factions debating the morality and impact on public behaviour of the theatre following the Glorious Revolution, and the political significance of public feeling around this controversy.
