Restoration Comedy - Crises of Desire and Identity (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 1987
First published:	1987
Authors:	Edward Burns
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	283
ISBN-13:	978-0-333-39747-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General
LSN:	0-333-39747-9
Barcode:	9780333397473

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