The Comedy of Manners from Sheridan to Maugham / / Newell W. Sawyer.
In the two centuries between the first performance of The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and the outbreak of the First World War, the stage provided an accurate mirror of the changing mores of English society. "High comedy," Newell W. Sawyer writes, "views man as a so...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1931 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- I. The Decline of a Tradition
- II. The Reign of Bad Taste
- III. Vestigial Reminders
- IV. Gilbert, Robertson and a New Social Consciousness
- V. Dramatic Production
- VI. Patrician Evidences in a Middle-Class Age
- VII. Return of the Comedy of Manners
- VIII. Twentieth-Century Tendency and Achievement
- IX. A Word in General
- Bibliography
- Index