Format:
LX, 439 S.
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
0192825704
Series Statement:
The world's classics
Content:
Marriage and its discontents lie at the heart of Restoration comedy. In all four of the plays gathered together here for the first time, a married woman confronts her would-be seducer. Each dramatist, however, totally reinterprets that situation. Thomas Otway's The Soldier's Fortune converts adultery into political revenge. Nathaniel Lee's The Princess of Cleves offers a potent and perplexing portrait of a libertine in action at the sixteenth-century French court. John Dryden's Amphitryon, set in ancient Thebes, retells the story in which Jupiter lures virtuous Alcmena into cuckolding her husband by a stratagem which throws into doubt the nature of human identity. Thomas Southerne's The Wives' Excuse reinvents, for the new circumstances of the 1690s, the familiar Restoration plot of a wife spurred towards infidelity by her partner's failings
Content:
The texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction and detailed annotation
Note:
Enth. u.a.: The soldiers' fortune / Thomas Otway. The Princess of Cleves / Nathaniel Lee
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Drama
;
Ehe
;
Geschichte 1680-1690
;
Anthologie
Author information:
Otway, Thomas 1652-1685
Author information:
Lee, Nathaniel 1653-1692
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