Georges de Scudéry's Almahide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Georges de Scudéry's Almahide write by Jerome William Schweitzer. This book was released on 1939. Georges de Scudéry's Almahide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Dramatic works
Dramatic works - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dramatic works write by John Dryden. This book was released on 1808. Dramatic works available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Broken Boundaries
Broken Boundaries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Broken Boundaries write by Katherine M. Quinsey. This book was released on 2021-03-17. Broken Boundaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume of twelve original essays is the first comprehensive study of feminist issues in Restoration drama. The late seventeenth century marks a pivotal era in the history of feminism, when Renaissance assumptions about gender and patriarchy were being directly challenged. For the first time, women appeared onstage as actresses, made their presence felt as spectators and patrons, and wrote a number of the plays produced in theaters. In an unusually direct and probing way, drama of the Restoration period raised radical questions about the place of women in the family and in society, and about the essential nature of men and women. The essays examine feminist issues from a variety of historical and theoretical approaches across a spectrum of plays—comedies, tragedies, tragicomedies, and heroic drama. By addressing the acute questions of gender raised in the drama, Broken Boundaries presents a vivid portrait of the uncertainties and changing perceptions in all areas of intellectual, political, and social life during the last decades of the seventeenth century.
Ravishment of Reason
Ravishment of Reason - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ravishment of Reason write by Brandon Chua. This book was released on 2014-09-11. Ravishment of Reason available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ravishment of Reason examines the heroic dramas written for the restored English theatres in the later seventeenth century, reading them as complex and sophisticated responses to a crisis of public life in the wake of the mid-century regicide and revolution. The unique form of the Restoration heroic play, with its scenes of imperial conquest peopled by hesitating and indecisive heroes, interrogates traditional oppositions of agency and passivity, autonomy and servility, that structure conventional narratives of political service and public virtue, exploring, in the process, new and often unsettling models of order and governance. Situating the dramas of Dryden, Behn, Boyle, Lee, and Crowne in their historical and intellectual context of civil war and the destabilizing theories of government that came in its wake, Brandon Chua offers an account of a culture’s attempts to reconcile civic purpose with political stability after an age of revolutionary change.
Heroes and States
Heroes and States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heroes and States write by J. Douglas Canfield. This book was released on 2021-12-14. Heroes and States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To understand the cultural history of England during the Restoration, one need look no further than the theater, which was attended by the gentry as well as by members of the middle and lower classes. The theater of this period embodied the values, meanings, and power relations of Restoration England. In Heroes and States, Douglas Canfield argues that drama not only represents but actually helps constitute the value and belief systems of an entire culture. Heroes and States completes Canfield's two-volume cultural history of Restoration drama, begun in Tricksters and Estates: On the Ideology of Restoration Comedy. In this second volume Canfield shows how Restoration playwrights attempted to rein scribe late-feudal aristocratic ideology after the English Civil War. In the serious drama of the period, conflict is between noble heroes, upon whom states are built, and transgressors of the established order—tyrants, traitors, usurpers, rapists, and atheists. Canfield considers several sub genres of tragedy. He argues that most of these sub genres reaffirm the older ideology after testing it in the fires of conflict. Tragical satire, on the other hand, the most subversive of these sub genres, exposes the failure of the ruling class to live up to its own codes and, in some cases, the absurdity of the codes themselves. Canfield also finds playwrights struggling with issues of race and colonialism. He uses the work of modern theorists such as Bakhtin, Girard, Kristeva, Derrida, Althusser, Williams, and Eagleton to illuminate aspects of his inquiries. Restoration tragedy stands on the cusp of a cultural transition from a late feudal to an early bourgeois ideology, and the issues and themes addressed in the theater validate the culture and politics of seventeenth-century England.
