Etiqueta: Ronald Clayton
Four Restoration Marriage Plays
Marriage and its discontents lie at the heart of Restoration comedy. In all four of the great plays gathered here, a married woman confronts her would-be seducer. Each dramatist, however, totally reinterprets the situation. Thomas Otways The Soldiers Fortune converts adultery into political revenge. Nathaniel Lees The Princess of Cleves offers a potent and perplexing […]
