Regicide and Restoration: English Tragicomedy, 1660-1671

by Nancy Klein Maguire

Book Overview

When the theatres reopened in 1660, tragedy, the greatest of the Renaissance genres, had vanished. Focusing on the directions taken by tragicomedy and the court masque, this book accounts for the shift in the generic system. After the Restoration a network of Royalist playwrights attempted to redefine their society. Defending the traditional power structure in the new circumstances, they fabricated pious, backward-looking and repetitious myths of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521023734
• ISBN13: 9780521023733
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"