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Author:   Richard Kroll (University of California, Irvine)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780521828376

ISBN 10:   0521828376
Pages:   346
Publication Date:   13 September 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I. Conditions of Restoration Drama: 1. 'This War of Opinions in the Empire of Wit': tragicomedy, politics, and trade; 2. 'This Mimic State': Cicero, Quintilian, and the theatrical scene of culture; Part II. Davenant: 3. 'The Civility of the Stage': Davenant's critical royalism; 4. 'The Vitruvius of His Age': Inigo Jones, the rhetoric of stage design, and architectural theory; 5. 'This New Building': Davenant's last phase Gondibert (1650–1); Part III. Some Restoration Plays from Dryden to Congreve: 6. Instituting empiricism: Hobbes and Dryden's Marriage a la mode; 7. Equity and exchange - or trade and contingency - in The Plain Dealer; 8. Merchants and bullionists in Behn's The Rover; 9. The political economy of All for Love; 10. The double logic of Don Sebastian: the Oedipal conscience at the Glorious Revolution; 11. Epilogue: Congreve as Whig: the politics of equivalence in The Way of the World.

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