After the restoration of King Charles II to the British throne in 1660, dramatists experienced new freedom in an age that broke from the strict morality of puritan rule and in which elegance and wit became the chief virtues. Irreverent, licentious and cynical, the three plays collected here hold up a mirror to this dazzling era and satirize the gulf between appearances and reality. In Etherege's The Man of Mode (1676), the womanizing Dorimant meets his match when he falls in love with the unpretentious Harriet, while Wycherley's The Country Wife (c. 1675) depicts the rakish Horner who fakes impotence to fool trusting husbands into giving him easy access to their wives. And in Congreve's Love for Love (1695), the extravagant Valentine can only win his beloved Angelica if he loses his inheritance.
Autorentext
Autorentext
George Etherege,William Congreve,William Wycherley
Titel
Three Restoration Comedies
Autor
andere
EAN
9780141937748
ISBN
978-0-14-193774-8
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Genre
Veröffentlichung
24.11.2005
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
1.89 MB
Anzahl Seiten
368
Jahr
2005
Untertitel
Englisch
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