Description
The Comedy of Manners
Routledge Library Editions: Comedy Series
Author: Muir Kenneth
Language: EnglishSubject for The Comedy of Manners:
Keywords
Restoration Comedies; Restoration comedy; Sentimental Comedy; eighteenth century plays; Young Men; artificial comedy; Molière; theatre; Matrimony; English literature; Lady Wishfort; French literature; School For Scandal; Sheridan; Lov; Wilde; Act III; Jeremy Collier; Lady Fidget; immorality; Wycherley’s Play; profaneness; Country Wife; types of comedy; Le Misanthrope; Restoration Dramatists; La Mode; Wo; Follow; Wedlock; Lady Teazle; Sir Harry Wildair; Lady Brute; Artificial Society; Mrs Sullen; Sir Fopling; Lady Sneerwell
Publication date: 03-2024
· 13.8x21.6 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 04-2022
· 13.8x21.6 cm · Hardback
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Originally published in 1970, this title starts with an introduction, in which Professor Muir distinguishes between the Comedy of Manners and other types of comedy and traces its origins in English and French literature, there are 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. This is followed by a discussion of the reasons for the decline of comedy in the eighteenth century and an account of its revival by Sheridan and, belatedly, by Wilde. Professor Muir takes issue with a number of recent critics on the dramatic value of the plays.
Preface. 1. Introduction 2. Sir George Etherege 3. John Dryden 4. Shadwell and Otway 5. William Wycherley 6. Thomas Southerne 7. William Congreve 8. Sir John Vanbrugh 9. George Farquhar 10. Decline and Renewal. Bibliography. Index.