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British Dram PDF
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Published on 2010-05 by Books LLC, Wiki Series
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: Restoration comedy, Augustan drama, Restoration spectacular, Comedy of menace, Characteristics of Harold Pinter's work, In-yer-face theatre, Philip Henslowe, Francis Langley, English drama, Made of Stone, The Winslow Boy, Jerusalem, George Jolly, Spur of the Moment, Revenge play, Edward Knight, John Rhodes, War of the Theatres, Posh, Henry Herbert, Love and Money, Essay of Dramatick Poesie, Histriomastix, Sucker Punch, Orphans, Faces in the Crowd, Redundant, Punk Rock, Lucky Dog, I'll Be The Devil, Five Kinds of Silence, Roots, The Early Bird, A Miracle, Rigdum Funnidos, Mogadishu, After the End. Excerpt: Augustan drama can refer to the dramas of Ancient Rome during the reign of Caesar Augustus, but it most commonly refers to the plays of Great Britain in the early 18th century, a subset of 18th-century Augustan literature. King George I referred to himself as |Augustus,| and the poets of the era took this reference as apropos, as the literature of Rome during Augustus moved from historical and didactic poetry to the poetry of highly finished and sophisticated epics and satire. In poetry, the early 18th century was an age of satire and public verse, and in prose, it was an age of the developing novel. In drama, by contrast, it was an age in transition between the highly witty and sexually playful Restoration comedy, the pathetic she-tragedy of the turn of the 18th century, and any later plots of middle-class anxiety. The Augustan stage retreated from the Restoration's focus on cuckoldry, marriage for fortune, and a life of leisure. Instead, Augustan drama reflected questions the mercantile class had about itself and what it meant to be gentry: what it meant to be a good merchant, how to achieve wealth with morality, and the proper role of those who serve. Augustan drama has a reputation as an era of decline. One rea...
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