John Harold Wilson (1900–1981)
Autore di Six Restoration Plays
Sull'Autore
Opere di John Harold Wilson
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1900-02-11
- Data di morte
- 1981-08-28
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Springfield, Ohio, USA
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Six eighteenth-century plays di John Harold Wilson
Better than the Restoration ones. More passionate, less comedy of manners, less rigidity. Includes: Rowe, The Fair Penitent (a "she-tragedy," in which a heroine, with an ill-advised passion, brings destruction upon herself and her family); Steele, The Conscious Lovers (a comedy, meaning marked by "gravity, tenderness, hope, fear...variety of events, change of fortune, unexpected disaster, sudden joy, a happy ending); Gay, The Beggar's Opera; Lillo, The London Merchant; Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, and Sheridan's School for Scandal. The Beggar's Opera and She Stoops are the best of them.… (altro)
½
Yeah, not so fond of Restoration theater. Too mannered, too constrained, too rule-bound. Not to mention, um, sexist. But here are: Wycherly, The Country Wife (satire/farce); Etheridge, The Man of Mode (satire/farce); Dryden, All for Love (his version of Antony & Cleopatra); Otway, Venice Preserved (baroque tragedy); Congreve, The Way of the World (I hate this play!); Farquhar, The Beaux Strategem (sentimental comedy). Yuck!
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- Opere
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- Utenti
- 253
- Popolarità
- #90,475
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 11