What is Restoration comedy? What pleasure does it offer its audience, and what significance does it find in exploring that pleasure? Edward Burns here provides a new account of the origins and nature of Restoration comedy as a distinct genre. The book enlarges the usual focus with a wider range of writers than the conventional ossified canon taking in a revaluation of many rarely studied dramatists, a reconsideration of pastoral, and the instatement of women writers as major contributors to the culture of the age. It offers a substantial and original interpretation of one of the most intriguing of seventeenth-century literature forms.
- ISBN10 0312677898
- ISBN13 9780312677893
- Publish Date 1 June 2000 (first published 28 July 1987)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 August 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St. Martin's Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 283
- Language English