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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... least momentarily and perhaps unconsciously , into moralistic critics when they deal with Resto- ration comedy . Second , I consider the various moral responses in a broader critical context by analyzing how critics have tradi- tionally ...
... least emotion , an appeal to common sense , and the joyous illusion is gone . ( P. 14 ) Clearly , this passage excludes the moral sense from the aesthetic judgment even though Dobrée later insists that the moral sense should be ...
... least promise , or give any one the least hope of it ; and if I do not demonstrate my innocence to you , I will be content for ever to be debarr'd the sight of you , more priz'd by me than Lib- erty , or Life " ( p . 270 ) . Clearly ...
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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 |