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Restoration Comedy

Crises of Desire and Identity

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  • © 1987

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Authors:
  1. Edward Burns

    1. University of Liverpool, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Edward Burns
    Pages 1-18

  3. From ‘Decorum’ to ‘Nature’ — Etherege and the Wits

    • Edward Burns
    Pages 19-47

  4. William Wycherley

    • Edward Burns
    Pages 48-62

  5. ‘The Wits’ Garden’ — Court Forms and Libertine Philosophies

    • Edward Burns
    Pages 63-86

  6. Professional Dramatists — Shadwell and Crowne

    • Edward Burns
    Pages 87-108

  7. Thomas Otway

    • Edward Burns
    Pages 109-122

  8. Aphra Behn

    • Edward Burns
    Pages 123-141

  9. Marriage and the Comedy of the 1690s — Dryden’s Amphitryon and Crowne’s The Married Beau

    • Edward Burns
    Pages 142-155

  10. The Etheregean Revival — Southerne, Cibber and Vanbrugh

    • Edward Burns
    Pages 156-182

  11. Congreve

    • Edward Burns
    Pages 183-211

  12. The Last Restoration Comedies — Farquhar, Centlivre and Steele

    • Edward Burns
    Pages 212-236

  13. Conclusion: Newgate Pastoral — John Gay and The Beggars Opera

    • Edward Burns
    Pages 237-244

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 245-283
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What is Restoration comedy? What pleasure does it offer its audience, and what significance does it find in exploring that pleasure? Edward Burns here provides a new account of the origins and nature of Restoration comedy as a distinct genre. The book enlarges the usual focus with a wider range of writers than the conventional ossified canon taking in a revaluation of many rarely studied dramatists, a reconsideration of pastoral, and the instatement of women writers as major contributors to the culture of the age. It offers a substantial and original interpretation of one of the most intriguing of seventeenth-century literature forms.

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  • University of Liverpool, UK

    Edward Burns

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