Comedy and Conscience After the Restoration / / Joseph Wood Krutch.

An account of the various influences that led to the decline of the Restoration Comedy and the rise of the Sentimental Comedy through a consideration of the general social and literary history of the times.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1949]
©1949
Year of Publication:1949
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface to the Second Printing
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • CHAPTER I. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RESTORATION COMIC TRADITION
  • CHAPTER II. THE DRAMA AND SOCIETY
  • CHAPTER III. CRITIC AND AMATEUR
  • CHAPTER IV. SOME CRITICAL DOGMAS
  • CHAPTER V. THE ONSLAUGHT ON THE STAGE
  • CHAPTER VI. THE ONSLAUGHT ON THE STAGE (Continued)
  • CHAPTER VII. THE REFORMATION OF MANNERS AND THE STAGE
  • CHAPTER VIII. THE DEVELOPMENT OF SENTIMENTAL COMEDY
  • CHAPTER IX. THE THEORY OF SENTIMENTAL COMEDY
  • Bibliography
  • Index