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Four Restoration Marriage Plays: "Soldier's Fortune", "Princess of Cleves", "Amphitryon", "Wives' Excuse" (Oxford World's Classics)

Four Restoration Marriage Plays: "Soldier's Fortune", "Princess of Cleves", "Amphitryon", "Wives' Excuse" (Oxford World's Classics)
By Thomas Otway, Nathaniel Lee, John Dryden, Thomas Southerne

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Marriage and its discontents lie at the heart of Restoration comedy. In all four of the plays collected here for the first time, a married woman confronts her would-be seducer. Each dramatist, however, totally reinterprets that situation. Rich, inventive, and diverse, these plays demonstrate the vigour with which the institution of marriage was examined in the post-1660 playhouses.

Includes: The Soldier's Fortune, by Thomas Otway; The Princess of Cleves, by Nathaniel Lee; Amphitryon, by John Dryden; The Wives' Excuse, by Thomas Southerne.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #1009617 in Books
  • Published on: 1998-05-07
  • Original language: English
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 504 pages

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Michael Cordner, the General Editor of the new Drama titles in World's Classics, is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Englis and related Literature at the University of York.