George Etherege

The Man of Mode

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The most perfectly poised of Restoration comedies, The Man of Mode is a finished exercise in dramatic sprezzatura, matching the beguiling 'easiness' and 'complaisance' of its central character. Its seemingly casual construction and breaches of comic decorum mask an artistic control designed to upset the complacency of our moral, social and aesthetic assumptions, luring us into sympathy for a character whose dangerous 'wildness' we should deplore.The modernised play text is accompanied by incisive commentary notes, while the introduction unpacks the complexity of the Restoration's political and theatrical context, analyses the play's performan… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Neill, Professor Michael (University of Auckland, New Zealand) (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-4742-8953-5
EAN: 9781474289535
Produktnummer: 28959039
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Masse: H13.1 cm x B19.7 cm x D1.6 cm 178 g
Auflage: 3 ed
Gewicht: 178
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Michael Neillis Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Auckland. He is the author of Issues of Death (1997) and Putting History to the Question (2000). He has edited Anthony and Cleopatra (1994) and Othello (2006) for the Oxford Shakespeare, Middleton and Rowley's The Changeling (2006) for New Mermaids, Massinger's The Renegado (2010) for Arden Early Modern Drama, and Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy (2013) for Norton Critical editions. He is currently preparing Webster's The Duchess of Malfi for Norton, and co-editing The Oxford Handbook to Shakespearean Tragedy (with David Schalkwyk).