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The rakish stage : studies in English drama, 1660-1800
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- Creator
- Robert D. Hume
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [1983]
- ©1983
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 382 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780809311002, 0809311003
- OCLC
- ocm08847129
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Content and meaning in the drama -- Restoration comedy and its audiences, 1660-1776 / Arthur H. Scouten and Robert D. Hume -- Otway and the comic muse -- The satiric design of Nat. Lee's The Princess of Cleve -- The myth of the rake in Restoration comedy -- Marital discord in English comedy from Dryden to Fielding -- The multifarious forms of eighteenth-century comedy -- The world is all alike -- The London theatre from The beggar's opera to the Licensing Act -- Goldsmith and Sheridan and the supposed revolution of laughing against sentimental comedy