The Unity of Thomas Southerne’s The Fatal Marriage : or, The Innocent Adultery : A Reconsideration
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<a href="https://journals.lib.pte.hu/index.php/focus/article/view/8066" target="_blank" >https://journals.lib.pte.hu/index.php/focus/article/view/8066</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15170/Focus.14.2024.7" target="_blank" >10.15170/Focus.14.2024.7</a>
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angličtina
Original language name
The Unity of Thomas Southerne’s The Fatal Marriage : or, The Innocent Adultery : A Reconsideration
Original language description
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.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
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OECD FORD branch
60206 - Specific literatures
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S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
Focus : Papers in English Literary and Cultural Studies
ISSN
1585-5228
e-ISSN
3057-8485
Volume of the periodical
14
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
HU - HUNGARY
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
107-122
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