Tricksters & Estates: On the Ideology of Restoration Comedy by J. Douglas Canfield

Tricksters & Estates: On the Ideology of Restoration Comedy

Suny Series, Power, Social Identity

J. Douglas Canfield

328 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics literary funny medium-paced
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If the Renaissance was the Golden Age of English comedy, the Restoration was the Silver. These comedies are full of tricksters attempting to gain estates, the emblem and the reality of power in late feudal England. The tricksters appear in a numbe...

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