Chih-Hsin Huang

Conduct Literature and the Politics of the Stage Controversy

1689-1728

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the struggle between factions debating the morality and impact on public behaviour of the theatre following the Glorious Revolution, and the political significance of public feeling around this controversy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9781837651191
• ISBN-10: 1837651191
• Artikelnr.: 73609720

Autorenporträt

CHIH-HSIN HUANG gained his PhD in History from Durham University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction
Part I Jeremy Collier's Stage Controversy and the Morality of Politics 1.
Collier's Conduct Manuals on Drama, 1698-1708 2. Collier and Reform Comedy
before the Stage Controversy 3. Rectification of Names: Collier's Conduct
Writing on Political Behaviour, 1689-1696 Part II Playwrights' Stage
Controversy: Reform Comedy and the Politics of Morality 4. Justifications
for Revolution: Pseudo-Reform Comedy, 1698-1703 5. The Careless Husband
(1704) and Post-1688 Ambivalence toward the Code of Conduct 6. Reform
Comedians' Discourses on Contractual Obedience, 1705-1728 7. Moral Reform
and Loyalty: Anti-Jacobite Alliance between Playwright and Moralist
Conclusion Bibliography Index