Restoration Drama and 'The Circle of Commerce': Tragicomedy, Politics, and Trade in the Seventeenth Century

by Richard Kroll

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Beginning with John Dryden's valuation of the importance of Beaumont and Fletcher for Restoration playwrights like himself, this book traces the genealogy of Restoration drama back to the beginning of the seventeenth century. It shows how tragicomedy was a means of deliberating on the political issues that define the seventeenth century, of increasingly understanding the effects of trade in the wake of the founding of the East India Company (1600),...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521180902

ISBN13:9780521180900

Release Date:February 2011

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:346 Pages

Weight:1.02 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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17th Century British & Irish Criticism & Theory Drama History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Writing Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

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