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- catalog abstract "If the Renaissance was the Golden Age of English comedy, the Restoration was the Silver. These comedies are full of tricksters attempting to gain estates, the emblem and the reality of power in late feudal England. The tricksters appear in a number of guises, such as heroines landing their men, younger brothers seeking estates, or Cavaliers threatened with dispossession. Now one of the leading scholars of Restoration drama offers a cultural history of the period's comedy that puts the plays in perspective and reveals the ideological function they performed in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century. To explain this function, J. Douglas Canfield groups the plays into three categories: social comedy, which underwrites Stuart ideology; subversive comedy, which undercuts it; and comical satire, which challenges it as fundamentally immoral or amoral. Through play-by-play analysis, he demonstrates how most of the comedies support the ideology of the Stuart monarchs and the aristocracy, upholding what they regarded as their natural right to rule because of an innate superiority over all other classes. A significant minority of comedies, however, reveal cracks in class solidarity, portray witty heroines who inhabit the margins of society, or give voice to folk tricksters who embody a democratic force nearly capable of overwhelming class hierarchy. A smaller yet but still significant minority end in no resolution, no restoration but, at their most radical, playfully portray Stuart ideology as empty rhetoric.".
- catalog alternative "Tricksters and estates".
- catalog contributor b10249589.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "If the Renaissance was the Golden Age of English comedy, the Restoration was the Silver. These comedies are full of tricksters attempting to gain estates, the emblem and the reality of power in late feudal England. The tricksters appear in a number of guises, such as heroines landing their men, younger brothers seeking estates, or Cavaliers threatened with dispossession. Now one of the leading scholars of Restoration drama offers a cultural history of the period's comedy that puts the plays in perspective and reveals the ideological function they performed in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "To explain this function, J. Douglas Canfield groups the plays into three categories: social comedy, which underwrites Stuart ideology; subversive comedy, which undercuts it; and comical satire, which challenges it as fundamentally immoral or amoral. Through play-by-play analysis, he demonstrates how most of the comedies support the ideology of the Stuart monarchs and the aristocracy, upholding what they regarded as their natural right to rule because of an innate superiority over all other classes. A significant minority of comedies, however, reveal cracks in class solidarity, portray witty heroines who inhabit the margins of society, or give voice to folk tricksters who embody a democratic force nearly capable of overwhelming class hierarchy. A smaller yet but still significant minority end in no resolution, no restoration but, at their most radical, playfully portray Stuart ideology as empty rhetoric.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. Social Comedy. 1. Nubile Tricksters Land Their Men. 2. Mature Women Tricksters Man Their Land. 3. Eligible Male Tricksters Get into the Deed. 4. Some Tricksters Get Tricked. 5. Town Tricksters Tup Their Rivals' Women. 6. Satiric Butts Get Disciplined -- pt. 2. Subversive Comedy. 7. Town Tricksters Tup Each Other's Women. 8. Naughty Heroine Tricksters Get Away with It. 9. Male Folk Tricksters Erupt from Below. 10. Female Folk Tricksters Climb on Top -- pt. 3. Comical Satire. 11. Tricksters Scourge and Get Scourged. 12. Tricksters Get Blown about by the Wind.".
- catalog extent "xi, 315 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Tricksters & estates.".
- catalog identifier "0813120128 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Tricksters & estates.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky,".
- catalog relation "Tricksters & estates.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "822/.05230904 21".
- catalog subject "Comedies of manners, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Deception in literature.".
- catalog subject "English drama (Comedy) History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English drama Restoration, 1660-1700 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Inheritance and succession in literature.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society Great Britain History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "PR698.C6 C36 1997".
- catalog subject "Rogues and vagabonds in literature.".
- catalog subject "Tricksters in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Social Comedy. 1. Nubile Tricksters Land Their Men. 2. Mature Women Tricksters Man Their Land. 3. Eligible Male Tricksters Get into the Deed. 4. Some Tricksters Get Tricked. 5. Town Tricksters Tup Their Rivals' Women. 6. Satiric Butts Get Disciplined -- pt. 2. Subversive Comedy. 7. Town Tricksters Tup Each Other's Women. 8. Naughty Heroine Tricksters Get Away with It. 9. Male Folk Tricksters Erupt from Below. 10. Female Folk Tricksters Climb on Top -- pt. 3. Comical Satire. 11. Tricksters Scourge and Get Scourged. 12. Tricksters Get Blown about by the Wind.".
- catalog title "Tricksters & estates : on the ideology of Restoration comedy / J. Douglas Canfield.".
- catalog title "Tricksters and estates".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".