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

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60206 - Specific literatures

Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Focus : Papers in English Literary and Cultural Studies

ISSN

1585-5228

e-ISSN

3057-8485

Svazek periodika

14

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

HU - Maďarsko

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

107-122

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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