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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sawyer, Newell W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, > 1751-1816 > Knowledge > Social life and customs.
Maugham, W. Somerset > (William Somerset), > 1874-1965 > Knowledge > Social life and customs.
Maugham, W. Somerset > (William Somerset), > 1874-1965
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, > 1751-1816
English drama (Comedy) > History and criticism.
Manners and customs in literature.
Comédie anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Mœurs et coutumes dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English drama (Comedy)
Manners and customs in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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