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Restoration Drama and 'The Circle of Commerce' - Tragicomedy, Politics, and Trade in the Seventeenth Century (Hardcover)
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Restoration Drama and 'The Circle of Commerce' - Tragicomedy, Politics, and Trade in the Seventeenth Century (Hardcover)
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Beginning with John Dryden's valuation of the importance of
Beaumont and Fletcher for Restoration playwrights like himself,
this book traces the genealogy of Restoration drama back to the
beginning of the seventeenth century. It shows how tragicomedy was
a means of deliberating on the political issues that define the
seventeenth century, of increasingly understanding the effects of
trade in the wake of the founding of the East India Company (1600),
and a means of linking Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the
blood, published in 1628, with both of these concerns. Tragicomedy
is also shown to be a key to understanding William Davenant,
Dryden's predecessor as Poet Laureate. The book concludes with a
reading of six individual Restoration plays to show how the habits
of the tragicomic tradition became the means of deliberating on the
nature of late Stuart power, and its increasing implication in the
world of seaborne commerce.
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