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The Comedy of Manners from Sheridan to Maugham /
In the two centuries between the first performance of The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and the outbreak of the First World War, the stage provided an accurate mirror of the changing mores of English society. "High comedy," Newell W. Sawyer writes, "views man as a so...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2016]
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| Edición: | Reprint 2016 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- I. The Decline of a Tradition
- II. The Reign of Bad Taste
- III. Vestigial Reminders
- IV. Gilbert, Robertson and a New Social Consciousness
- V. Dramatic Production
- VI. Patrician Evidences in a Middle-Class Age
- VII. Return of the Comedy of Manners
- VIII. Twentieth-Century Tendency and Achievement
- IX. A Word in General
- Bibliography
- Index