Four Restoration Marriage Plays: The Soldier's Fortune; The Princess of Cleves; Amphitryon; Or the Two Sosias; The Wives' Excuse; Or Cuckolds Make The

by John Dryden, Nathaniel Lee, Thomas Otway

Book Overview

Marriage and its discontents lie at the heart of Restoration comedy. In all four of the great plays collected here, a married woman confronts her would-be seducer. Each dramatist, however, reinterprets this situation in a novel way. Rich, inventive, and diverse, the plays demonstrate the vigor with which the institution of marriage was treated in the post-1660 playhouse.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198121636
• ISBN13: 9780198121633
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.8"