The Unity of Thomas Southerne’s The Fatal Marriage : or, The
Innocent Adultery : A Reconsideration

J 2024

The Unity of Thomas Southerne’s The Fatal Marriage : or, The Innocent Adultery : A Reconsideration

KRAJNÍK, Filip

Základní údaje

Originální název

The Unity of Thomas Southerne’s The Fatal Marriage : or, The Innocent Adultery : A Reconsideration

Autoři

KRAJNÍK, Filip

Vydání

Focus : Papers in English Literary and Cultural Studies, 2024, 1585-5228

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

60206 Specific literatures

Stát vydavatele

Maďarsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Odkaz na plný text článku.

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/24:00138913

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

DOI

https://doi.org/10.15170/Focus.14.2024.7

Klíčová slova anglicky

Thomas Southerne; The Fatal Marriage; Aphra Behn; The History of the Nun; Decameron; Shakespeare; adaptation

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 21. 3. 2025 09:40, PhDr. Filip Krajník, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

The present study discusses Thomas Southerne’s tragicomedy The Fatal Marriage (1694), based on Aphra Behn’s earlier novella The History of the Nun (1688). Modern criticism has tended chiefly to point out the simplification of Behn’s main heroine in Southerne’s play, as well as Southerne’s introduction of the comical subplot that appears to be irrelevant to the main tragic story. The present essay defends the structure of Southerne’s piece, observing both ideological and artistic themes that permeate both plots and create a dramatic unity in Southerne’s work. The essay further argues that, in order to achieve this, Southerne’s play is informed not only by Behn’s prose text, but also by a number of tropes from Behn’s dramatic oeuvre, as well as by Boccaccio’s Decameron and Shakespeare’s great tragedies, which both enjoyed considerable popularity when The Fatal Marriage was originally staged.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1328/2023, interní kód MU

Název: Jazyk, literatura a kultura v anglofonních kontextech I

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Jazyk, literatura a kultura v anglofonních kontextech I

Citovat

KRAJNÍK, Filip. The Unity of Thomas Southerne’s The Fatal Marriage : or, The Innocent Adultery : A Reconsideration. Focus : Papers in English Literary and Cultural Studies. 2024, roč. 14, č. 1, s. 107-122. ISSN 1585-5228. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.15170/Focus.14.2024.7.

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KRAJNÍK, Filip. The Unity of Thomas Southerne’s The Fatal Marriage : or, The Innocent Adultery : A Reconsideration. \textit{Focus : Papers in English Literary and Cultural Studies}. 2024, roč.~14, č.~1, s.~107-122. ISSN~1585-5228. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.15170/Focus.14.2024.7.

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