Curbing the Cuckold-Maker: The Transformation of the Restoration Rake in English Comedy, 1660-1686
dc.contributor.author | Dempsey, Cole | |
dc.contributor.author | University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science | |
dc.contributor.supervisor | Ladd, Heather | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-06-19T16:12:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-06-19T16:12:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.degree.level | Masters | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | My 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.embargo | No | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10133/5405 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.proquest.subject | English literature [0593] | en_US |
dc.proquest.subject | Theater history [0644] | en_US |
dc.proquest.subject | Literature [0401] | en_US |
dc.proquestyes | Yes | en_US |
dc.publisher | Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of English | en_US |
dc.publisher.department | Department of English | en_US |
dc.publisher.faculty | Arts and Science | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Thesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science) | |
dc.subject | Great Britain History | en_US |
dc.subject | Plays | en_US |
dc.subject | Playwrites | en_US |
dc.subject | Rake character | en_US |
dc.subject | Restoration, 1660-1688 | en_US |
dc.subject | Restoration literature | en_US |
dc.title | Curbing the Cuckold-Maker: The Transformation of the Restoration Rake in English Comedy, 1660-1686 | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |