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Marriage A-La-Mode: New Mermaids

Autor John Dryden Editat de David Crane
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2003
Dryden's audiences in 1671, both aristocratic and middle-class, wouldhave been quick to respond to the themes of disputed royal succession,Francophilia and loyalty among subjects in his most successfultragicomedy. In the tragic plot, written in verse, young Leonidas hasto struggle to assert his place as the rightful heir to the throne ofSicily and to the hand of the usurper's daughter. In the comic plot,written in prose, two fashionable couples (much more at home in Londondrawing-rooms than at the Sicilian court) play at switching partners inthe 'modern' style. The introduction of this edition argues thatDryden's own ambivalence about King Charles and his entourage, on whomhe came to rely more on more for patronage, manifests itself in bothplots; most of all perhaps in the excessively Francophile Melantha,whose affectation cannot quite hide her endearing joie-de-vivre.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780713666663
ISBN-10: 0713666668
Pagini: 144
Ilustrații: c 5 photographs/line drawings
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.11 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Seria New Mermaids

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

John Dryden

Descriere

In this play, the author deploys verbal and theatrical wit in hiscombination of two plots - a complex exploration of of the language ofsocial exchange and personal feeling between typically well-born menand women of late-17th-century England.