Without God or Reason: Plays of Thomas Shadwell and Secular Ethics in the Restoration

by Christopher J. Wheatley

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This work argues that examinations of the didactic component of Restoration drama have been hindered by several faulty assumptions: first, that there is some widely accepted ethical belief system in the period; second, that sexual behavior is the central test case for ethical obligation in the comedy; and finally, that ethical systems are not in themselves complex.
  • ISBN10 0838752438
  • ISBN13 9780838752432
  • Publish Date 1 January 1993
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 30 September 2022
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Associated University Presses
  • Imprint Bucknell University Press,U.S.
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 201
  • Language English