George Villiers (1) (1628–1687)
Auteur de Restoration Plays
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A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham. Wikimedia Commons.
Œuvres de George Villiers
The Rehearsal / The Critic 12 exemplaires
Plays, poems, and miscellaneous writings associated with George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham, volumes I-II (2007) 2 exemplaires
Plays, poems, and miscellaneous writings associated with George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham, volume I (2007) 2 exemplaires
The Chances 1 exemplaire
[Fragment] Poems on affairs of state from the time of Oliver Cromwell to the abdication of K. James the Second 1 exemplaire
[Two plays] 1 exemplaire
Poems 1 exemplaire
Plays, poems, and miscellaneous writings associated with George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham, volume II (2007) 1 exemplaire
An epitaph upon Thomas, late Lord Fairfax 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
British Dramatists from Dryden to Sheridan (1939) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 92 exemplaires
The Plays of David Garrick, Volume 5: Garrick's Alterations of Others, 1742-1750 (1982) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
The Plays of David Garrick, Volume 6: Garrick's Alterations of Others, 1751-1756 (1982) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Villiers, George, Second Duke of Buckingham, Earl of Coventry, Viscount Villiers, Baron Whaddon, and Baron de Ros of Helmsley
- Autres noms
- Villiers, George
- Date de naissance
- 1628-01-30
- Date de décès
- 1687-04-16
- Lieu de sépulture
- Chapel of St. Nicholas, Westminster Abbey, London, England, UK
- Nationalité
- England
- Pays (pour la carte)
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Lieu de naissance
- London, England
- Lieu du décès
- Kirkby Moorside, Yorkshire, England
- Cause du décès
- complications of a cold
- Études
- Trinity College, Cambridge (Master of Arts)
- Professions
- soldier
statesman
poet
playwright - Relations
- Hobbes, Thomas (tutor)
Charles I, King of England (ward) - Organisations
- Royal Society (Chemistry, 1661-05-15)
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 16
- Aussi par
- 4
- Membres
- 240
- Popularité
- #94,569
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 18
- Langues
- 1
In the preface to the printed version of The Conquest of Granada, Dryden scolds his fellow dramatists for having immoral heroes and low sentiments, and he proposes a new type of theater, the "heroic drama." Buckingham's play is, in a sense, the old theater biting him back. In The Rehearsal, a director/author attempts to put on a new play, and he lectures his actors and critics with impossible and absurd instructions on the importance of what they are doing.
The Rehearsal infuriated Dryden, and it is not possible to see the satire without some political cause or effect. (Dryden would not forget the satire, and he made Buckingham into the figure of Zimri in his Absalom and Achitophel.) However, for readers and viewers what was most delightful was the way that Buckingham effectively punctures the puffed up bombast of Dryden's plays. By taking Dryden's own words out of context and pasting them together, Buckingham disrupts whatever emotions that might have gone with them originally and exposes their inherent absurdity.… (plus d'informations)