The plays of Henry Fielding : a critical study of his dramatic career
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The plays of Henry Fielding : a critical study of his dramatic career
University Press of Virginia, 1989
大学図書館所蔵 全22件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Fielding was one of the most interesting playwrights of his time because of his historical position, similar to that of Shaw, and his awareness of what it meant to be a playwright at a time when the native dramatic tradition appeared to have died and when the only hope for drama lay in such low crowd-pleasers as farces, puppet shows, "laughing" tragedies and ballad operas. The plays of Henry Fielding, while far from being neglected, have not received the critical attention they deserve. Rather than studying the plays in their own right, critics have assumed that these early dramatic pieces merit attention only insofar as they serve as a prologue to the later fiction. Rivero, through critical readings of ten representative plays, aims to shows that Fielding was not writing plays with novelistic features but, until the Licensing Act of 1737 ended his career as a dramatist, was very much involved in expanding the possibilities of the theatre, constantly seeking new approaches, new forms and new emphases. By focusing on the plays themselves, he tells the story of Fielding's dramatic career but avoids an exhaustive history of contemporary plays and playwrights.
He aims to provide us with a clear, critical account of Fielding's dramatic career in terms of trends in contemporary dramatic affairs that help to account for his artistic choices in individual plays.
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