Detailed Information on Publication Record
2019
“I hope we shall grow wiser in the End” : Romeo and Juliet in the midst of Restoration Party Politics
KRAJNÍK, FilipBasic information
Original name
“I hope we shall grow wiser in the End” : Romeo and Juliet in the midst of Restoration Party Politics
Authors
KRAJNÍK, Filip (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)
Edition
Hradec Králové Anglophone Conference, 28-29 March 2019, University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, 2019
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Prezentace na konferencích
Field of Study
60206 Specific literatures
Country of publisher
Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14210/19:00112401
Organization unit
Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English
Restoration theatre; adaptation; 18th century English politics; William Shakespeare; Romeo and Juliet; Bejnamin Griffin; John Sturmy; Susanna Centlivre
Tags
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 31/3/2020 11:01, Mgr. Marie Skřivanová
Abstract
V originále
Upon the formation of the two political parties in England after the Exclusion Crisis in the late 1670s and early 1680s, a number of playwrights of the period either took sides in current political debates or in their works expressed regret over party strife. It might be argued that a loose subgenre of political drama at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries was plays setting a story of unhappy lovers from rival families (which were either openly or covertly based of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet) within the framework of current political animosities. This paper will focus on three such works - Thomas Otway’s Caius Marius (1679), Benjamin Griffin’s Whig and Tory (1720), and John Sturmy’s The Compromise (1722) – observing how the tone of these versions of the common story changed with the general political climate in the country: from a bloody tragedy to light-hearted melodramatic comedies.
Links
MUNI/A/1396/2018, interní kód MU |
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