Beginning with John Dryden''s valuation of the importance of
Beaumont and Fletcher for Restoration playwrights like himself,
this book traces the genealogy of Restoration drama back to the
beginning of the seventeenth century. It shows how tragicomedy was
a means of deliberating on the political issues that define the
seventeenth century, of increasingly understanding the effects of
trade in the wake of the founding of the East India Company 1600,
and a means of linking Harvey''s discovery
目錄:
Introduction
Part I. Conditions of Restoration Drama:
1. ''This War of Opinions in the Empire of Wit'': tragicomedy,
politics, and trade
2. ''This Mimic State'': Cicero, Quintilian, and the
theatrical scene of culture
Part II. Davenant:
3. ''The Civility of the Stage'': Davenant''s critical
royalism
4. ''The Vitruvius of His Age'': Inigo Jones, the rhetoric of
stage design, and architectural theory
5. ''This New Building'': Davenant''s last phase Gondibert
1650–51
Part III. Some Restoration Plays from Dryden to Congreve:
6. Instituting empiricism: Hobbes and Dryden''s Marriage a la
mode
7. Equity and exchange - or trade and contingency - in The
Plain Dealer
8. Merchants and bullionists in Behn''s The Rover
9. The political economy of All for Love
10. The double logic of Don Sebastian: the Oedipal
conscience at the Glorious Revolution
11. Epilogue: Congreve as Whig: the politics of equivalence
in The Way of the World