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William Mountfort's Greenwich Park (1691), produced in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution, takes comic action to the green spaces east of London where urbane rakes court witty young ladies surrounded by a lively gallery including roistering citizens, an adulterous wife and a charismatic kept mistress. This first-ever critical edition offers a fully annotated modernized text, together with an introduction analysing the processes of evolution and transition articulated by this comedy on several, interrelated levels: from the old hard comedy of the 1670s to the new humane comedy of the early 1690s, from a glamorous view of debauchery and excess to the more sober morals promoted by William and Mary, and from the Town settings of Carolean comedy to the suburbs.
Sommario
- William Mountfort and His Time
- Greenwich Park and Restoration Comedy
3. Stage History
4. The Text.
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Jesús Correa Sánchez holds an MA in English literature from Indiana University and a PhD in the same field from the Universidad de Sevilla. He has taught different courses at Indiana University, the Language Institute of the Universidad de Sevilla, the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, and the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). He is a member of the Restoration Comedy Project, which aims to catalogue all the comedies, farces, burlesques and drolls from the Restoration period in a comprehensive database. His research interests include the stylistic evolution of the genre from the 1660s to the late 17th century and the use of private and public space in the Restoration comedy.
