The Independent Woman in the Restoration Comedy of MannersBRILL, 1976 - 255 Seiten |
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... sentimental heroines as well . This witty fair one in her fullest and finest development is possessed of a sparkling wit and keen intelligence , an aggressive will to power and a heightened awareness of her own precarious position in a ...
... sentimental heroines as well . This witty fair one in her fullest and finest development is possessed of a sparkling wit and keen intelligence , an aggressive will to power and a heightened awareness of her own precarious position in a ...
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... sentimental comedy only its focus upon an unhappy marriage . Its tone reverbrates with the same old Restoration cynicism . Farquhar's work is more overtly sentimental . The Recruiting Officer ( 1705 ) , clearly a transitional comedy ...
... sentimental comedy only its focus upon an unhappy marriage . Its tone reverbrates with the same old Restoration cynicism . Farquhar's work is more overtly sentimental . The Recruiting Officer ( 1705 ) , clearly a transitional comedy ...
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... sentimental heroine is saccharine and maudlin , lacking the verve and intellectual challenge of the witty fair one of Restoration comedy . Among the contemporaries of Vanbrugh and Farquhar , Thomas Southerne merits our attention here ...
... sentimental heroine is saccharine and maudlin , lacking the verve and intellectual challenge of the witty fair one of Restoration comedy . Among the contemporaries of Vanbrugh and Farquhar , Thomas Southerne merits our attention here ...
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aggressive Alithea Angelica awareness Beatrice beau-rake Belinda Bellamira Bellmour Berinthia Celadon Cibber clever Colley Cibber comedy of manners comic heroines Congreve's Conscious Lovers coquette Country Wife Critical Crowne's Dorimant Drama Series Lincoln Dryden's Isabelle earlier heroines English drama Etherege Etherege's Harriet Farquhar female fop Fletcher Florimell Fujimura gallant Hippolyta Hobbes Hobbesian impudent independent heroine intellectual Jacobean John Dryden John Vanbrugh Jonson's lacks Lady Betty Lady Brute language later learned lady Leonora libertine London marriage Melantha Millamant Millamant's Mirabell mistress Nebraska Press outwitting heroine Pinchwife play playful playwrights plot Professor Provok'd Wife rake recognize Regents Restoration Drama Restoration comedy Restoration Drama Series Restoration heroines Rosalura satire Sedley's self-awareness sensual sentimental seventeenth century Shadwell Shakespeare Silvia Sir Anthony skeptical society sophisticated Southerne's spirit Sullen Thomas Southerne treatment Truewit truly witty University of Nebraska University Press Vanbrugh William Congreve William Wycherley witty fair witty heroine wou'd Wycherley Wycherley's York young women