| Description |
1 online resource (liv, 414 pages). |
| Series |
Oxford English drama |
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Oxford world's classics |
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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Oxford English drama.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages li-liii). |
| Contents |
The libertine / Thomas Shadwell -- The man of mode ; or, Sir Fopling Flutter / George Etherege -- A fond husband ; or, The plotting sisters / Thomas D'Urfey -- Friendship in fashion / Thomas Otway. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
These four plays in the Oxford English Drama series capture the range of responses to the fashionable and daring libertine movement in the second half of the seventeenth century. A Fond Husband and Friendship in Fashion are lesser-known comic gems of the Restoration stage; The Man of Mode is Etherege's masterpiece, and The Libertine is Shadwell's experimental and dark version of the Don Juan story. - ;Thomas Shadwell, The Libertine * George Etherege, The Man of Mode * Thomas Durfey, A Fond Husband * Thomas Otway, Friendship in Fashion. These four plays in the Oxford English Drama series captur. |
| Subject |
English drama -- Restoration, 1660-1700.
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Libertinism -- Drama.
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English drama -- Restoration.
(OCoLC)fst01710951
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Libertinism. (OCoLC)fst00997247
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| Chronological Term |
1660-1700
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| Genre/Form |
Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
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| Added Author |
Payne, Deborah C.
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Shadwell, Thomas, 1642?-1692.
Libertine.
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Etherege, George, 1636-1691 or 1692.
Man of mode.
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D'Urfey, Thomas, 1653-1723.
Fond husband.
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Otway, Thomas, 1652-1685.
Friendship in fashion.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Four Restoration libertine plays. Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005 (DLC) 2004027977 |
| ISBN |
9780191517822 (electronic bk.) |
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0191517828 (electronic bk.) |
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