Pastoralism and Restoration comedy: The Example of William Wycherley’s Love in a Wood; or, Saint James’s Park
With the example of Wycherley’s first comedy, Love in a Wood (1672), the paper aims at giving a brief account of the nature of the links between several aspects of the pastoral tradition and Restoration comedy. Various deviations from the original model – through the use of parody and satire – heral...
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| Published in | Etudes epistémè Vol. 4; no. 4 |
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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Institut du Monde Anglophone
01.11.2003
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| Summary: | With the example of Wycherley’s first comedy, Love in a Wood (1672), the paper aims at giving a brief account of the nature of the links between several aspects of the pastoral tradition and Restoration comedy. Various deviations from the original model – through the use of parody and satire – herald Love in a Wood as an early « mock-pastoral », which was to become so popular a mode in the eighteenth century. In the Restoration days, though, the use of pastoral drama clearly serves satiric purposes and offers a convenient medium to ridicule the hated figure of the Puritan hypocrite. In Wycherley’s play, the presence of pastoralism is arguably a means to suggest distance. |
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| ISSN: | 1634-0450 1634-0450 |
| DOI: | 10.4000/episteme.4095 |