Three Restoration Comedies

Name: Three Restoration Comedies
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
SKU: 9780140430271
Price: 2350 KES
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ISBN: 9780140430271

by George Etherege , William Congreve , William Wycherley

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 014043027X

ISBN-13 9780140430271

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint Penguin Classics

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 24th, 2005

Print length 368 Pages

Weight 272 grams

Dimensions 19.70 x 12.90 x 2.30 cms

Product Classification: United Kingdom, Great Britain 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699 Later 17th century c 1650 to c 1699 Plays, playscripts Plays, playscripts, drama

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The three plays collected here mirror the era after King Charles II. In Etherege's "The Man of Mode", Dorimant meets his match. In Wycherley's "The Country Wife", Horner fakes impotence to fool husbands into giving him access to their wives. In Congreve's "Love for Love", the Valentine can win his beloved only if he loses his inheritance.

After the restoration of King Charles II to the British throne in 1660, dramatists experienced new freedom in an age that broke from the strict morality of puritan rule and in which elegance and wit became the chief virtues. Irreverent, licentious and cynical, the three plays collected here hold up a mirror to this dazzling era and satirize the gulf between appearances and reality. In Etherege''s The Man of Mode (1676), the womanizing Dorimant meets his match when he falls in love with the unpretentious Harriet, while Wycherley''s The Country Wife (c. 1675) depicts the rakish Horner who fakes impotence to fool trusting husbands into giving him easy access to their wives. And in Congreve''s Love for Love (1695), the extravagant Valentine can only win his beloved Angelica if he loses his inheritance.

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