Critics, Values, and Restoration ComedySouthern Illinois University Press, 1982 - 177 sivua Granting that literature delights, Harwood addresses the moral questions that have been hotly debated by critics for the 300 years since Restoration comedy flourished: “In what way does literature teach? How do beliefs about its effects on audiences shape critics’ responses to and judgment of literature?”
Harwood begins with a survey of the “major rhetorical strategies by which many critics transform themselves, at least momentarily and perhaps unconsciously, into moralists when they deal with restoration comedy.”
Then he places various moral responses in a broader critical context by analyzing ways in which critics have traditionally handled aesthetic problems, which inevitably entail an ethical assessment of literature.
Third, he analyzes the moral dimensions of four controversial Restoration comedies: William Wycherley’s Country Wife; Edward Ravenscroft’s London Cuckolds; Thomas Otway’s Souldiers Fortune; and Thomas Shadwell’s Squire of Alsatia. |
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... husbands to avoid cuckoldom and the intrigues of their wives who seek horns for their husbands ; both plays present ... husband or an overzealous father or brother , but by Alithea's own sense of abstract moral obligation to Sparkish ...
... husband wants to insure that his wife is faithful , he should seek a country wife or provide a eunuch for his city ... husbands , but the less with the wives . Horner . Let me alone ; if I can but abuse the husbands , I'll soon disabuse ...
... husband's prudence to provide innocent diversion for a wife as to hinder her unlawful pleasure , and he had better employ her than let her employ herself " ( pp . 9–10 ) . In the battle between Horner , the women , and their husbands ...
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DeepBreathing Sex and Critical Practice | 77 |
Notes | 145 |
Selected Bibliography | 163 |
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The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre Deborah Payne Fisk Rajoitettu esikatselu - 2000 |