by Bonamy Dobrée · Oxford University Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9780198115281
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«Restoration Tragedy, 1660-1720» is Bonamy Dobrée's literary criticism essay, published by Oxford University Press in hardcover (190 pages, in English).
The work examines English tragic theatre between 1660 and 1720, from the reopening of the theatres after the Restoration to the changes in taste at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Dobrée studies the playwrights of the period, the conventions of the genre and its relationship with politics, society and morality, and places these tragedies in the history of English culture.
First edition of 1929, published in English by Oxford University Press.
For students of English literature and readers interested in the history of theatre and culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
