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Four Restoration Marriage Plays: The Soldier's Fortune; The Princess of Cleves ; Amphitryon; or The Two Sosias; The Wives' Excuse; or Cuckolds Make Themselves (Oxford World's Classics) by Michael Cordner; Ronald Clayton; Thomas Otway; Nathaniel Lee; John Dryden; Thomas Southerne is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Marriage and its discontents lie at the heart of Restoration comedy. In all four of the plays gathered together here for the first time, a married woman confronts her would-be seducer. Each dramatist, however, totally reinterprets that situation. Thomas Otway's The Soldier's Fortune converts adultery into political revenge. Nathaniel Lee's The Princess of Cleves offers a potent and perplexing portrait of a libertine in action at the sixteenth-century French court. John Dryden's Amphitryon, set in ancient Thebes, retells the story in which Jupiter lures virtuous Alcmena into cuckolding her husband by a stratagem which throws into doubt the nature of human identity. Thomas Southerne's The Wives' Excuse reinvents, for the new circumstances of the 1690s, the familiar Restoration plot of a wife spurred towards infidelity by her partner's failings. The texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction and detailed annotation.

Author

Michael Cordner; Ronald Clayton; Thomas Otway; Nathaniel Lee; John Dryden; Thomas Southerne

Publisher

Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198121633

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities