This Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive guide yet both to the nature and content of literature, and to literary criticism. In ninety essays by leading international critics and scholars, the volume covers both traditional topics such as literature and history, poetry, drama and the novel, and also newer topics such as the production and reception of literature. Current critical ideas are clearly and provocatively discussed, while the volume's arrangement reflects in a dynamic way the rich diversity of contemporary thinking about literature.Each essay seeks to provide the reader with a clear sense of the full significance of its subject as well as guidance on further reading.An essential work of reference, The Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism is a stimulating guide to the central preoccupations of contemporary critical thinking about literature.Special Features* Clearly written by scholars and critics of international standing for readers at all levels in many disciplines* In-depth essays covering all aspects, traditional and new, of literary studies past and present* Useful cross-references within the text, with full bibliographical references and suggestions for further reading* Single index of authors, terms, topics

More successful in its day than The Way of the World, which is now accounted Congreve's best play, Love for Love (1695) is a comical farce manifesting the verbal polish and the theatrical wit that audiences so enjoy in Congreve. Valentine, Sir Sampson's dissolute eldest son, finds himself at a standstill; the only way out of his financial difficulties is to give in to his father's pressure to renounce his right of inheritance. While this suggestion immediately increases the chances of his bluff younger brother Ben on the marriage mart, Valentine's own chances with his beloved Angelica would proportionally decrease. To avoid having to sign the renunciation Valentine puts on an 'antic disposition' and pretends to be mad. Angelica, seeing through him, provokes him back into sanity by pretending to agree to marry his father. Valentine recovers, the lovers reunite, and Ben, too, has meanwhile found the girl of his heart

The Regents Restoration Drama series provides soundly edited texts, in modern spelling, of the significant plays of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Each text is based on a fresh collation of the early authoritative editions. The textual notes record all substantive departures from the edition used as the copy-text. Variant substantive readings among contemporary editions are listed. Historical background, stage history, and literary and cultural information are included.

This Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive guide yet both to the nature and content of literature, and to literary criticism. In ninety essays by leading international critics and scholars, the volume covers both traditional topics such as literature and history, poetry, drama and the novel, and also newer topics such as the production and reception of literature. Current critical ideas are clearly and provocatively discussed, while the volume's arrangement reflects in a dynamic way the rich diversity of contemporary thinking about literature.Each essay seeks to provide the reader with a clear sense of the full significance of its subject as well as guidance on further reading.An essential work of reference, The Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism is a stimulating guide to the central preoccupations of contemporary critical thinking about literature.Special Features* Clearly written by scholars and critics of international standing for readers at all levels in many disciplines* In-depth essays covering all aspects, traditional and new, of literary studies past and present* Useful cross-references within the text, with full bibliographical references and suggestions for further reading* Single index of authors, terms, topics

This Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive guide yet both to the nature and content of literature, and to literary criticism. In ninety essays by leading international critics and scholars, the volume covers both traditional topics such as literature and history, poetry, drama and the novel, and also newer topics such as the production and reception of literature. Current critical ideas are clearly and provocatively discussed, while the volume's arrangement reflects in a dynamic way the rich diversity of contemporary thinking about literature.Each essay seeks to provide the reader with a clear sense of the full significance of its subject as well as guidance on further reading.An essential work of reference, The Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism is a stimulating guide to the central preoccupations of contemporary critical thinking about literature.Special Features* Clearly written by scholars and critics of international standing for readers at all levels in many disciplines* In-depth essays covering all aspects, traditional and new, of literary studies past and present* Useful cross-references within the text, with full bibliographical references and suggestions for further reading* Single index of authors, terms, topics

More successful in its day than The Way of the World, which is nowaccounted Congreve''s best play, Love for Love (1695) is a comical farcemanifesting the verbal polish and the theatrical wit that audiences soenjoy in Congreve. Valentine, Sir Sampson''s dissolute eldest son, findshimself at a standstill; the only way out of his financial difficultiesis to give in to his father''s pressure to renounce his right ofinheritance. While this suggestion immediately increases the chances ofhis bluff younger brother Ben on the marriage mart, Valentine''s ownchances with his beloved Angelica would proportionally decrease. Toavoid having to sign the renunciation Valentine puts on an ''anticdisposition'' and pretends to be mad. Angelica, seeing through him,provokes him back into sanity by pretending to agree to marry hisfather. Valentine recovers, the lovers reunite, and Ben, too, hasmeanwhile found the girl of his heart

This Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive guide yet both to the nature and content of literature, and to literary criticism. In ninety essays by leading international critics and scholars, the volume covers both traditional topics such as literature and history, poetry, drama and the novel, and also newer topics such as the production and reception of literature. Current critical ideas are clearly and provocatively discussed, while the volume's arrangement reflects in a dynamic way the rich diversity of contemporary thinking about literature.Each essay seeks to provide the reader with a clear sense of the full significance of its subject as well as guidance on further reading.An essential work of reference, The Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism is a stimulating guide to the central preoccupations of contemporary critical thinking about literature.Special Features* Clearly written by scholars and critics of international standing for readers at all levels in many disciplines* In-depth essays covering all aspects, traditional and new, of literary studies past and present* Useful cross-references within the text, with full bibliographical references and suggestions for further reading* Single index of authors, terms, topics

More successful in its day than The Way of the World, which is now accounted Congreve's best play, Love for Love (1695) is a comical farce manifesting the verbal polish and the theatrical wit that audiences so enjoy in Congreve. Valentine, Sir Sampson's dissolute eldest son, finds himself at a standstill; the only way out of his financial difficulties is to give in to his father's pressure to renounce his right of inheritance. While this suggestion immediately increases the chances of his bluff younger brother Ben on the marriage mart, Valentine's own chances with his beloved Angelica would proportionally decrease. To avoid having to sign the renunciation Valentine puts on an 'antic disposition' and pretends to be mad. Angelica, seeing through him, provokes him back into sanity by pretending to agree to marry his father. Valentine recovers, the lovers reunite, and Ben, too, has meanwhile found the girl of his heart

The Regents Restoration Drama series provides soundly edited texts, in modern spelling, of the significant plays of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Each text is based on a fresh collation of the early authoritative editions. The textual notes record all substantive departures from the edition used as the copy-text. Variant substantive readings among contemporary editions are listed. Historical background, stage history, and literary and cultural information are included.

This Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive guide yet both to the nature and content of literature, and to literary criticism. In ninety essays by leading international critics and scholars, the volume covers both traditional topics such as literature and history, poetry, drama and the novel, and also newer topics such as the production and reception of literature. Current critical ideas are clearly and provocatively discussed, while the volume's arrangement reflects in a dynamic way the rich diversity of contemporary thinking about literature.Each essay seeks to provide the reader with a clear sense of the full significance of its subject as well as guidance on further reading.An essential work of reference, The Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism is a stimulating guide to the central preoccupations of contemporary critical thinking about literature.Special Features* Clearly written by scholars and critics of international standing for readers at all levels in many disciplines* In-depth essays covering all aspects, traditional and new, of literary studies past and present* Useful cross-references within the text, with full bibliographical references and suggestions for further reading* Single index of authors, terms, topics

This Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive guide yet both to the nature and content of literature, and to literary criticism. In ninety essays by leading international critics and scholars, the volume covers both traditional topics such as literature and history, poetry, drama and the novel, and also newer topics such as the production and reception of literature. Current critical ideas are clearly and provocatively discussed, while the volume's arrangement reflects in a dynamic way the rich diversity of contemporary thinking about literature.Each essay seeks to provide the reader with a clear sense of the full significance of its subject as well as guidance on further reading.An essential work of reference, The Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism is a stimulating guide to the central preoccupations of contemporary critical thinking about literature.Special Features* Clearly written by scholars and critics of international standing for readers at all levels in many disciplines* In-depth essays covering all aspects, traditional and new, of literary studies past and present* Useful cross-references within the text, with full bibliographical references and suggestions for further reading* Single index of authors, terms, topics

More successful in its day than The Way of the World, which is nowaccounted Congreve''s best play, Love for Love (1695) is a comical farcemanifesting the verbal polish and the theatrical wit that audiences soenjoy in Congreve. Valentine, Sir Sampson''s dissolute eldest son, findshimself at a standstill; the only way out of his financial difficultiesis to give in to his father''s pressure to renounce his right ofinheritance. While this suggestion immediately increases the chances ofhis bluff younger brother Ben on the marriage mart, Valentine''s ownchances with his beloved Angelica would proportionally decrease. Toavoid having to sign the renunciation Valentine puts on an ''anticdisposition'' and pretends to be mad. Angelica, seeing through him,provokes him back into sanity by pretending to agree to marry hisfather. Valentine recovers, the lovers reunite, and Ben, too, hasmeanwhile found the girl of his heart