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Regicide and Restoration: English Tragicomedy, 1660 1671

Regicide and Restoration: English Tragicomedy, 1660 1671

Maguire, Nancy Klein
Nancy Klein, Maguire

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ISBN10: 0521023734
ISBN13: 9780521023733
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 17 2005
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
When the theatres reopened in 1660, tragedy, the greatest of the Renaissance genres, had vanished. Focusing on the directions taken by tragicomedy and the court masque, this book accounts for the shift in the generic system. After the Restoration a network of Royalist playwrights attempted to redefine their society. Defending the traditional power structure in the new circumstances, they fabricated pious, backward-looking and repetitious myths of monarchy. Carolean tragicomedy reflects the persistent attempt to hold together an uneasily integrated culture, and shows us something of the early Restoration's division and intolerance of ambiguity. In Regicide and Restoration Nancy Klein Maguire accords the long-neglected plays of the 1660s the status of major historical documents.

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