Men of Letters and the English Public in the Eighteenth Century, 1660-1744: Dryden, Addison, PopePsychology Press, 1998 - 492 pages This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory. |
Contents
Courtiers literary pretensions Authors compelled to seek | 67 |
19 | 95 |
30 | 104 |
As yet neither public nor men of letters | 125 |
JOHN DRYDEN AND POLITICS 16801688 | 136 |
Decadence of Drama Newspapers The Coffee House | 151 |
Drydens Absalom | 168 |
Sprats Account of | 178 |
The SpectatorA_Nonpolitical Daily Appeal to | 263 |
Increase in the number and quality of readers The influence | 307 |
ALEXANDER POPE 17211744 | 317 |
Walpole at the Head of Affairs 172142 Cessation of political | 341 |
Dryden and the first English publisher Jacob Tonson The | 354 |
Pope and his publishers Tonson and Lintot Popes Translation | 366 |
Conclusion | 381 |
INDEX | 399 |
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