Restoration Comedy in Performance
- Paperback
- ISBN:9780521274210
- Publication date:August 1986
- 288pages
- 52 b/w illus.
- Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
- Weight: 0.43kg
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Restoration comedy has suffered from an inappropriate literary and moralistic criticism that continues to prevail. Its witty parody of sexual and social behavior was, however, an extraordinary success in its own time. This text emphasizes the importance of interplay between stage and audience.