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The Relapse (Paperback)
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The Relapse (Paperback)
Series: New Mermaids
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Loot Price R411
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Written in defiance of Jeremy Collier and the budding fashion
for
sentimental drama, this late Restoration comedy exposes the
reformed
rake Loveless to the temptations of London and the charms of a
merry
widow, neither of which he is able to withstand. More memorable
than
the straying husband, however, is Restoration comedy's
ultimate
follower of fashion, Lord Foppington, who defends himself in
the
Epilogue by observing that no highwayman or Jacobite was ever
well
dressed. As the introduction to this edition argues, Sir John
Vanbrugh
- dramatist, architect and member of the influential Kit Cat Club
-
presents courtship and marriage not only with cynicism, but also
with
moral bravery and social impudence; qualities not much in evidence
in
his sentimental rivals.
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