Virgin or Wife? St Dorothy's Legend on the Late Restoration Stage
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://ff.upce.cz/ff/volume-12-0#Mikyskova" target="_blank" >https://ff.upce.cz/ff/volume-12-0#Mikyskova</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Virgin or Wife? St Dorothy's Legend on the Late Restoration Stage
Original language description
Although the early modern and the Restoration periods in England mark two distinct theatrical traditions, theproduction of English Restoration playwrights was to a great extent characterized by a conscious reliance on the legacy of their early modern precursors, which resulted in the high number of adaptations of old plays written and staged well into the 18th century. The canons of the two dramatic traditions are, thus, intertwined, and their parallel study provides valuable insight into the then dramatic conventions and the development of English drama in general. The present paper analyses the late Restoration adaptation Injured Virtue, or The Virgin Martyr (1714) by Benjamin Griffin and compares it with its early modern source, the tragedy The Virgin Martyr (1620) by Philip Massinger and Thomas Dekker. After addressing Griffin’s motives for choosing this particular Jacobean play, the paper discusses the most significant differences between the two texts and argues that Griffin’s alterations in the list of dramatis personae and his rhetorical transformation of the play’s main protagonists (especially that of the story’s heroine, St Dorothy) lead to the inevitable conclusion that, with the two periods in questions and their dramatic conventions being so different, not every Restoration adaptation managed to translate the early modern material successfully.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60206 - Specific literatures
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-07494S" target="_blank" >GA19-07494S: English Theatre Culture 1660-1737</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
American and British Studies Annual
ISSN
1803-6058
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
12
Issue of the periodical within the volume
December
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
32-43
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85078471539