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Act III
artificial comedy
Artificial Society
Author_Kenneth Muir
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Country Wife
dramatic morality debates
eighteenth century plays
eighteenth-century literature
English literary criticism
English literature
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- ISBN 9781032215617
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 27 Apr 2022
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Originally published in 1970, this title starts with an introduction, in which Professor Muir distinguishes between the Comedy of Manners and other types of comedy and traces its origins in English and French literature, there are then chapters on the major writers – Etherege, Dryden, Wycherly, Congreve, Vanbrugh, Farquhar – and on Jeremy Collier’s attack on the immorality and profaneness of the plays. This is followed by a discussion of the reasons for the decline of comedy in the eighteenth century and an account of its revival by Sheridan and, belatedly, by Wilde. Professor Muir takes issue with a number of recent critics on the dramatic value of the plays.
Kenneth Muir
