George Villiers (1) (1628–1687)
Auteur de Restoration Plays
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent George Villiers, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham. Wikimedia Commons.
Œuvres de George Villiers
Plays, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings associated with George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham: Two-volume Set (v.… (2007) 2 exemplaires
Plays, poems, and miscellaneous writings associated with George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham, volume I (2007) 2 exemplaires
[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 — 91 exemplaires
The Plays of David Garrick, Volume 5: Garrick's Alterations of Others, 1742 - 1750 (1982) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
The plays of David Garrick. 6, Garrick's alterations of others, 1751 - 1756 (1982) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1628-01-30
- Date de décès
- 1687-04-16
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 14
- Aussi par
- 4
- Membres
- 231
- Popularité
- #97,643
- 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)