TRICKSTERS AND ESTATES: ON THE IDEOLOGY OF RESTORATION By J. Douglas Canfield

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From the back cover: "With engaging enthusiasm, Canfield unites cultural analysis with a study of genre to offer a new and exciting approach to the drama. -BRIAN CORMAN UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO "This comedy features nothing so much as tricksters who contend for estates, from romantic lovers who want to marry as they will but do not want to be disinherited (the young men) or dis-portioned (the young women) in the process, to younger brothers who desperately need estates, to witty women who need to outtrick male sexual tricksters in order to socialize and possess their extraordinarily valuable energy. From the flyleaf: Tricksters & Estates On the Ideology of Restoration Comedy J. DOUGLAS CANFIELD If the Renaissance was the Golden Age of English comedy, the Restoration was the Silver. These comedies are full of tricksters attempting to gain estates, the emblem and the reality of power in late feudal England. The tricksters appear in a number of guises, such as heroines landing their men, younger brothers seeking estates, or Cavaliers threat ened with dispossession. The hybrid nature of these plays has long posed problems for critics, and few studies have attempted to deal with their diversity in a comprehensive way. Now one of the leading scholars of Restoration drama offers a cultural history of the period's com edy that puts the plays in perspective and reveals the ideological function they per formed in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century. To explain this function, J. Douglas Canfield groups the plays into three categories: social comedy, which underwrites Stuart ideology; subversive comedy, which under cuts it; and comical satire, which challenges it as fundamentally immoral or amoral. Through play-by-play analysis, he demon strates how most of the comedies support the ideology of the Stuart monarchs and the aristocracy, upholding what they regarded as their natural right to rule because of an innate superiority over all other classes. A significant minority of comedies, however, reveal cracks in class solidarity, portray witty heroines who inhabit the margins of society, or give voice to folk tricksters who embody a democratic force nearly capable of over whelming class hierarchy. A smaller yet but still significant minority end in no resolution, no restoration but, at their most radical, playfully portray Stuart ideology as empty rhetoric. Tricksters and Estates is a truly comprehensive work, offering serious critical readings of many plays that have never before received close attention and fresh insights into more familiar works. By juxtaposing the comedies of such lesser-known play wrights as Orrery, Lacy, and Rawlins with those of more familiar figures like Behn, and Dryden, the author invites a greater appreciation than has previously been possible of the meaning and function of Restoration comedy. This intelligent and wide-ranging study promises to become a standard work in its field. J. DOUGLAS CANFIELD, Regents' Professor of English at the University of Arizona, is the author of Word as Bond in English Literature from the Middle Ages to the Restoration and coeditor of the recently published volume Cultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theater. By the way: Welcome to the new ebay storefront for The Shepherd's Center of Winston-Salem. The store will be operated by experienced ebay sellers who have been selling some of our best donations for several years now through their own storefronts. Now we are using these same experienced sellers to sell to you directly. 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Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina

End Time: 2024-09-30T14:22:24.000Z

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