Contributions

  • Cordner, Michael. - Contributor

Publication

1976 - E. Benn, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

31,000 words, Guess

Page Count

124 pages

Identifiers

and 5 more
  • LibraryThing600051
  • Library of Congress Control Number77352857
  • OCLC Control Number2930314
  • Better World Books9780393900071
  • Open LibraryOL4590701M

Classifications

  • DDC822/.4
  • LCCPR3437 .B4 1976

Description

In this new edition, The Beaux' Stratagem is seen as a traditional work, combining characteristics of the Restoration comedy of manners with those of the more conventionally moral comedy that followed. Mr. Fifer discusses the numerous alterations made in the text during the century, many of which eliminated racy dialogue or diminished the importance of the marriage-divorce theme. Farquhar's views on divorce were influenced by Milton; he is also concerned here with the conflict between virtue and vice, and with the importance of money and its influence on personal freedom. Based on a collation of eight copies of the first quarto, this edition includes extensive discussion of text and stage history.

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Series Statement

  • The New mermaids

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