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Books on: farquhar comedy

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Encyclopedia Articles on: farquhar comedy

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  • Farquhar, George
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    FARQUHAR, GEORGE far k r, kw r, 1678 1707, Irish...stage duel, he wrote (1698) his first comedy, Love and a Bottle. His next play, The...Stratagem (1707), a witty, realistic comedy set in the country. His plays, written...
     
  • Drama, Western
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...produced brilliant social comedies that are neoclassical in their...personages. But Restoration comedy, particularly the brilliant comedies of manners by George Etherege...and deeply cynical. George Farquhar was a later and gentler master of Restoration comedy. Eighteenth-Century Drama...
     
  • English Literature
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...elements of classical Roman comedy with native burlesque. During...the first to write romantic comedy; the versatile Thomas Lodge...age. His history plays, comedies, and tragedies set a standard...George Chapman , the masters of comedy Thomas Dekker and Philip Massinger...brilliant were the plays of George Farquhar , Thomas Shadwell , and Sir...