Country wives and country girls in eighteenth-century England. A history of theatrical rewriting
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2006
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| contents | Country wives and country girls in eighteenth-century England. A history of theatrical rewriting Purificación Ribes Lengua y Literatura reception Country wife eighteenth century This paper covers a span of fifty years in the reception of Wycherley’s masterpiece, his Country Wife. This play has been chosen for study because its linguistic and thematic features made it scarcely elligible as a stage piece for the increasingly prudish and good-hearted audiences that attended the playhouse during the second half of the eighteenth century. The challenge that its rewriting posed on playwrights was not small, taking into account that the piece’s most outstanding features are its employment of witty language and its cynic approach to the relationship between the sexes. This paper focusses on the different processes of theatrical appropriation undergone by The Country Wife in response to the changing demands of audiences. A number of editions attributed to John Lee (1765, 1786) and David Garrick (1766, 1777, 1808, 1819) have been closely read bearing in mind their theatrical nature. Finally, the analysis of metatextual items has proved a valuable tool to check the mutual relationship between text and performance that was characteristic of the period. 2006 artículo científico 1135-7789 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=333527602005 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3335 SEDERI Yearbook application/pdf Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies SEDERI Yearbook (España) Num.16 |
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| spellingShingle | Country wives and country girls in eighteenth-century England. A history of theatrical rewriting Purificación Ribes Lengua y Literatura reception Country wife eighteenth century Country wives and country girls in eighteenth-century England. A history of theatrical rewriting Purificación Ribes Lengua y Literatura reception Country wife eighteenth century This paper covers a span of fifty years in the reception of Wycherley’s masterpiece, his Country Wife. This play has been chosen for study because its linguistic and thematic features made it scarcely elligible as a stage piece for the increasingly prudish and good-hearted audiences that attended the playhouse during the second half of the eighteenth century. The challenge that its rewriting posed on playwrights was not small, taking into account that the piece’s most outstanding features are its employment of witty language and its cynic approach to the relationship between the sexes. This paper focusses on the different processes of theatrical appropriation undergone by The Country Wife in response to the changing demands of audiences. A number of editions attributed to John Lee (1765, 1786) and David Garrick (1766, 1777, 1808, 1819) have been closely read bearing in mind their theatrical nature. Finally, the analysis of metatextual items has proved a valuable tool to check the mutual relationship between text and performance that was characteristic of the period. 2006 artículo científico 1135-7789 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=333527602005 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3335 SEDERI Yearbook application/pdf Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies SEDERI Yearbook (España) Num.16 |
| title | Country wives and country girls in eighteenth-century England. A history of theatrical rewriting |
| topic | Lengua y Literatura reception Country wife eighteenth century |
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