| Restoration Comedies: Discussion of Love and Marriage: in The Country Wife and Love for Love Contributor(s): Werckmeister, Anke (Author) |
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ISBN: 365628069X ISBN-13: 9783656280699 Publisher: Grin Verlag OUR PRICE: $36.01 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Physical Information: 0.04" H x 7" W x 10" (0.12 lbs) 20 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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| Publisher Description: Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, Free University of Berlin (Institut f r Englische Philologie), course: Restoration Comedies, language: English, abstract: Two Restoration Comedies that I want to discuss are William Wycherley's The Country Wife (1675) and William Congreve's Love for Love (1695). Both plays were written in a time when libertinism prevailed and male stereotypes like rakes and fops and female stereotypes like wives and virgins were popular. Needless to say, both plays not only deal with Restoration society but also with its problems, concerns, and difficulties at the time. And especially, Love for Love, which was written fairly at the end of the Restoration era, still is a conventional play in terms of being libertine-satirical but it already includes some features of sentimentalism. So it is not a postponement from libertinism to sentimentalism yet, but I want to argue in this essay that both plays are rather conventional libertine Restoration plays which include features of early sentimentalism. |