Title: Restoration drama and "the circle of commerce" : tragicomedy, politics, and trade in the seventeenth century /
Authors: Kroll, Richard W. F.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: English drama History and criticism; English drama (Tragicomedy) History and criticism.; Commerce in literature History; Politics in literature History; Commerce in literature.; Politics in literature.; Politics and literature Great Britain History
Contents: 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.