Four Restoration Marriage Plays: The Soldier's Fortune; The Princess of Cleves; Amphitryon; Or the Two Sosias; The Wives' Excuse; Or Cuckolds Make Themselves
About this title: Marriage and its discontents lie at the heart of Restoration comedy. In all four of the great plays gathered here for the first time, a married woman confronts her would-be seducer. Each dramatist, however, totally reinterprets that situation. Thomas Otway's The Soldier's Fortune converts adultery into political revenge. Nathaniel Lee's The Princess of Cleves offers a potent and perplexing portrait of a libertine in action at the sixteenth century French court. John Dryden's Amphitryon, set in ancient Thebes, retells the story in which Jupiter lures the virtuous Alcmena into cuckolding her ...
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Edition: Reprint
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, London
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780192834478ISBN:0192834479
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Reprint in softcover format in the World's Classics series, 8vo, 439pp, edited by Michael Cordner and Ronald Clayton; lengthy introductory essays and copious useful notes; VG+ Copy. read more
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