Restoration Comedy in Performance

Name: Restoration Comedy in Performance
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ISBN: 9780521274210

ISBN-10: 0521274214

ISBN-13: 9780521274210

Edition: 1986

Authors: J. L. Styan

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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…

Book details

List price: $62.99
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/29/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.21" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



List of illustrations


Acknowledgments



Introduction and approach



The playhouse and the performance



The actor



The actress



Stage and sexual tactics



A mode of speech



The spirit of the performance


Appendices


Selected bibliography


Index