The ornament of action : text and performance in Restoration comedy / Pewter Holland
1979, First Edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Spine uniformly sun-toned. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #447276
ISBN: 0521220483
Physical description; xii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents
The text and the audience -- Performance: tyheatres and scenery -- Performance: actors and the cast -- Performance and the published text -- Text and performance(1): the comedies, 1691 to 1693 -- Text and performance (2) : Wycherley's the Plain-Dealer -- Text and performance (3) : the comedies of Congreve. Subjects; 1600-1700. Comedies of manners, English History and criticism. English drama Restoration, 1660-1700 History and criticism.
Price: €14.95