Restoration Comedy in Performance (Paperback)

J.L. Styan

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Idioma: inglés

Editorial: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986

0521274214 / 9780521274210

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Paperback. Restoration comedy disappeared from the stage for nearly 200 years until it was revived early this century. Without the benefit of a performance tradition has suffered from an inappropriate literary and moralistic criticism which continues to this day. Yet this brilliant court and coterie comedy of sexual and social behaviour was an extraordinary success in its own time, and enjoys a unique place in theatrical history as an example of the interplay possible between the stage and the audience. In this book John Styan persuades us that only through a performance approach to the great plays of Etherege, Wycherley, Dryden, Shadwell, Vanbrugh, Congreve and Farquhar can we recover a sense of their value. Restoration Comedy in Performance is liberally illustrated with contemporary drawings and modern photographs, and it draws extensively upon documentary and visual evidence of the seventeenth century in order to suggest the importance of the costume and customs, manners and behaviour of the age to an understanding of the sort of theatre and drama it produced. Professor Styan also discusses the problems encountered in the early attempts to revive the comedies in the twentieth century, and pauses frequently in order to offer a descriptive account of a moment of staging or to recreate a scene or a sequence of comic repartee or action. The book aims to bring back to life, therefore, something of a lost art form, not as a piece of conventional stage or production history, but as a true attempt to recognize the virtues of Restoration comedy as a performing art. Restoration comedy demonstrates the interplay possible between the stage and the audience. Thus, this text argues that only through a performance approach can the plays of Etherege, Wycherley, Dryden, Shadwell, Vanbrugh, Congreve and Farquhar recover a lost sense of their value. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Título
Restoration Comedy in Performance (Paperback)
Autor
J.L. Styan
Editorial
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Año de publicación
1986
Estado
new
Encuadernación
Paperback
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
0521274214
ISBN 13
9780521274210

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