Four Restoration Marriage Plays: The Soldier's Fortune; The Princess of Cleves; Amphitryon; Or the Two Sosias; The Wives' Excuse; Or Cuckolds Make Themselves by John Dryden

Four Restoration Marriage Plays: The Soldier's Fortune; The Princess of Cleves; Amphitryon; Or the Two Sosias; The Wives' Excuse; Or Cuckolds Make Themselves

John Dryden

504 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

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Marriage and its discontents lie at the heart of Restoration comedy. In all four of the great plays gathered here, a married woman confronts her would-be seducer. Each dramatist, however, totally reinterprets the situation. Thomas Otway's The Sold...

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