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William Congreve
'What plays! What wit!' Byron's tribute to Congreve was a fitting one: the consummate mastery of language, wonderfully absurd comic characters, and especially the exquisite wit and gaiety of the lovers' exchanges, mark his plays as some of the greatest comedies in the English lan...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
1967.
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| Colección: | Writers and Their Work Series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 'What plays! What wit!' Byron's tribute to Congreve was a fitting one: the consummate mastery of language, wonderfully absurd comic characters, and especially the exquisite wit and gaiety of the lovers' exchanges, mark his plays as some of the greatest comedies in the English language. But if Congreve represents the flowering of Restoration comedy, he also stands apart from his fellow playwrights; contrasted with Etherege's amorality and Wycherley's wit, his. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (41 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781837647071 1837647070 |