1st Edition

The Comedy of Manners

By Kenneth Muir Copyright 1970
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1970, this title starts with an introduction, in which Professor Muir distinguishes between the Comedy of Manners and other types of comedy and traces its origins in English and French literature, there are then chapters on the major writers – Etherege, Dryden, Wycherly, Congreve, Vanbrugh, Farquhar – and on Jeremy Collier’s attack on the immorality and profaneness of the... Read more

Preface.  1. Introduction  2. Sir George Etherege  3. John Dryden  4. Shadwell and Otway  5. William Wycherley  6. Thomas Southerne  7. William Congreve  8. Sir John Vanbrugh  9. George Farquhar  10. Decline and Renewal.  Bibliography.  Index.

Biography

Kenneth Muir