Richard Kroll

Restoration Drama and 'The Circle of Commerce'

Tragicomedy, Politics, and Trade in the Seventeenth Century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study into the relationship between Restoration drama and the tragicomic tradition of drama.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9780521180900
• ISBN-10: 0521180902
• Artikelnr.: 32311474

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Conditions of Restoration Drama: 1. 'This War of
Opinions in the Empire of Wit': tragicomedy, politics, and trade; 2. 'This
Mimic State': Cicero, Quintilian, and the theatrical scene of culture; Part
II. Davenant: 3. 'The Civility of the Stage': Davenant's critical royalism;
4. 'The Vitruvius of His Age': Inigo Jones, the rhetoric of stage design,
and architectural theory; 5. 'This New Building': Davenant's last phase
Gondibert (1650-1); Part III. Some Restoration Plays from Dryden to
Congreve: 6. Instituting empiricism: Hobbes and Dryden's Marriage a la
mode; 7. Equity and exchange - or trade and contingency - in The Plain
Dealer; 8. Merchants and bullionists in Behn's The Rover; 9. The political
economy of All for Love; 10. The double logic of Don Sebastian: the Oedipal
conscience at the Glorious Revolution; 11. Epilogue: Congreve as Whig: the
politics of equivalence in The Way of the World.