The Gay Couple In Restoration Comedy
by John Harrington Smith
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First printing. Hardcover. xi+ 252 pp. with index of plays, general index. Very good, lenghty gift inscription front free endpaper. tattered dust jacket in pieces laid in. A scholarly work on the "gay couple" ("gay" as in joyous, not otherwise), that engaging pair of lovers in 17th century ciomedy to whom courtship is a game and a duel of wits. With sections on the "Love Duel in English Comedy before the Restoration", Platonicism and anti-platonicism after 1660; gay comedy 1660-1675; cynical comedy 1675-1687, etc.
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- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E26047
- Title
- The Gay Couple In Restoration Comedy
- Author
- John Harrington Smith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- plays, restoration, theater, theatre, stage, comedy, battle of the sexes
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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