Restoration Comedy: Crises of Desire and Identity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333397473)

What is Restoration comedy? What pleasure does it offer its audience, and what significance does it find in exploring that pleasure? Edward Burns here provides a new account of the origins and nature of Restoration comedy as a distinct genre. The book enlarges the usual focus with a wider range of writers than the conventional ossified canon taking in a revaluation of many rarely studied dramatists, a reconsideration of pastoral, and the instatement of women writers as major contributors to the culture of the age. It offers a substantial and original interpretation of one of the most intriguing of seventeenth-century literature forms.

Author: Edward Burns
ISBN-10: 0333397479
ISBN-13: 9780333397473
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 07/28/1987
Pages: 283
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d