Womersley Restoration Comedy

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-75681-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 160 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Essential Literature

The two plays presented in full in this volume - Wycherley'sThe Country Wife and Congreve's The Way of the World- illustrate the evolution of Restoration comedy between 1675and 1700.
* * Includes full texts of Wycherley's The Country Wife andCongreve's The Way of the World.
* * Demonstrates how Restoration comedy evolved between 1675 and1700.
* * Introduces general readers or students to the genre.
* * An editorial introduction guides readers through the plays andthe period.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Womersley, David

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wu, Duncan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor's Preface.
Introduction.
1. William Wycherley (1641-1716):.
The Country Wife (1675).
2. William Congreve (1670-1729):.
The Way of the World (1700).
Index of titles and first lines.

Über Autor(innen)

David Womersley has been a Fellow and Tutor in EnglishLiterature at Jesus College, Oxford since 1984.
Duncan Wu is a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford,and University Lecturer in English Literature.