Curbing the Cuckold-Maker: The Transformation of the Restoration Rake in English Comedy, 1660-1686

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dc.contributor.authorDempsey, Cole
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorLadd, Heather
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-19T16:12:03Z
dc.date.available2019-06-19T16:12:03Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.description.abstractMy thesis examines the theatrical Restoration rake character throughout the years 1660 to 1686. As a cuckold-maker, the rake on stage enforces satire on the husbands he cuckolds. However, as Aparna Gollapudi argues in Moral Reform in Comedy and Culture, 1696-1747, at the beginning of the eighteenth century the tone of English theatre shifted towards reform, “not by inflicting punishment but by imparting experiential instruction” (6). I argue, through analysis of four Restoration comedies, that we can observe signs of the moral shift that Gollapudi locates in the 1690s in playwrights’ shifting treatment of the theatrical cuckold-making Restoration rake through 1660-1686. Though playwrights in the early Restoration (roughly 1660-1679) subtly undermine their rake characters’ satirical authority by characterizing their rakes as manipulative but ultimately self-defeating satirists, playwrights after 1680 more explicitly undermine their rake characters’ satirical authority by characterizing their rakes as passionate young men in need of moral education.en_US
dc.embargoNoen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/5405
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.proquest.subjectEnglish literature [0593]en_US
dc.proquest.subjectTheater history [0644]en_US
dc.proquest.subjectLiterature [0401]en_US
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Englishen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Englishen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)
dc.subjectGreat Britain Historyen_US
dc.subjectPlaysen_US
dc.subjectPlaywritesen_US
dc.subjectRake characteren_US
dc.subjectRestoration, 1660-1688en_US
dc.subjectRestoration literatureen_US
dc.titleCurbing the Cuckold-Maker: The Transformation of the Restoration Rake in English Comedy, 1660-1686en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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