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Four Restoration Libertine Plays (edition 2005)

by Deborah Payne Fisk (Editor), Michael Cordner (Editor)

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These four plays in the Oxford English Drama series capture the range of responses to the fashionable and daring libertine movement in the second half of the seventeenth century. A Fond Husband and Friendship in Fashion are lesser-known comic gems of the Restoration stage; The Man of Mode is Etherege's masterpiece, and The Libertine is Shadwell's experimental and dark version of the Don Juan story. - ;Thomas Shadwell, The Libertine * George Etherege, The Man of Mode * Thomas Durfey, A Fond Husband * Thomas Otway, Friendship in Fashion. These four plays in the Oxford English Drama series captur… (more)
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Title:Four Restoration Libertine Plays
Authors:Deborah Payne Fisk (Editor)
Other authors:Michael Cordner (Editor)
Info:Oxford University Press, USA (2005), Paperback, 468 pages
Collections:Readings 2023, Literature, Your library, Books, Have Read
Rating:***1/2
Tags:literature, english_literature, drama, 17th_century, libertinism

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Four Restoration Libertine Plays (Oxford World's Classics) by Deborah Payne Fisk (Editor)

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These four plays in the Oxford English Drama series capture the range of responses to the fashionable and daring libertine movement in the second half of the seventeenth century. A Fond Husband and Friendship in Fashion are lesser-known comic gems of the Restoration stage; The Man of Mode is Etherege's masterpiece, and The Libertine is Shadwell's experimental and dark version of the Don Juan story. - ;Thomas Shadwell, The Libertine * George Etherege, The Man of Mode * Thomas Durfey, A Fond Husband * Thomas Otway, Friendship in Fashion. These four plays in the Oxford English Drama series captur

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