| Description |
1 online resource (liv, 414 pages) |
| Series |
Oxford English drama |
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Oxford world's classics |
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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Oxford English drama.
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| Contents |
The libertine / Thomas Shadwell -- The man of mode ; or, Sir Fopling Flutter / George Etherege -- A fond husband ; or, The plotting sisters / Thomas D'Urfey -- Friendship in fashion / Thomas Otway |
| Summary |
These four plays in the Oxford English Drama series capture the range of responses to the fashionable and daring libertine movement in the second half of the seventeenth century. A Fond Husband and Friendship in Fashion are lesser-known comic gems of the Restoration stage; The Man of Mode is Etherege's masterpiece, and The Libertine is Shadwell's experimental and dark version of the Don Juan story. - ;Thomas Shadwell, The Libertine * George Etherege, The Man of Mode * Thomas Durfey, A Fond Husband * Thomas Otway, Friendship in Fashion. These four plays in the Oxford English Drama series captur |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages li-liii) |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
English drama -- Restoration, 1660-1700.
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Libertinism -- Drama
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English drama -- Restoration
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Libertinism
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| Genre/Form |
Drama
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Payne, Deborah C
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Shadwell, Thomas, 1642?-1692.
Libertine.
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Etherege, George, Sir, 1635?-1691.
Man of mode
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D'Urfey, Thomas, 1653-1723.
Fond husband
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Otway, Thomas, 1652-1685.
Friendship in fashion
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| LC no. |
2004027977 |
| ISBN |
9780191517822 |
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0191517828 |
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9780192832948 |
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0192832948 |
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1280752378 |
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9781280752377 |
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