Tricksters & Estates: On the Ideology of Restoration Comedy

" A Choice Outstanding Academic Book If the Renaissance was the Golden Age of English comedy, the Restoration was the Silver. These comedies are full of tricksters attempting to gain estates, the emblem and the reality of power in late feudal England. The tricksters appear in a number of guises, such as heroines landing their men, younger brothers seeking estates, or Cavaliers threatened with dispossession. The hybrid nature of these plays has long posed problems for critics, and few studies hav

Author: J. Douglas Canfield
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 03/20/1997
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.31h x 6.29w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9780813120126

About the Author

J. Douglas Canfield, Regents' Professor of English at the University of Arizona, is the author of Word as Bond in English Literature from the Middle Ages to the Restoration and coeditor of Cultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theater.

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