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Seller's Description:
VG in G DJ. Engaging pairs of lovers in 17th century comedy to whom courtship is a game and duel of wits, traced from their origin. With the Elizabethans through their rise in pre-Civil War time and triumph in the Restoration to their decline at the end of the century. Major comic writers of the period as well as many plays are traced. DJ tanned at edges, owner name ft endpaper, small spot on fore-edge.
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Good. No Jacket. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" Ex-library w/usual stamps & stickers. Pages clean; binding tight; moderate wear to covers; lacks a dustjacket. 252 pages. Examines those plays in which "the hero and heroine manage their courtship action as if it were an amusing game that they are playing."
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Very Good. First printing. Hardcover. xi+ 252 pp. with index of plays, general index. Very good, lenghty gift inscription front free endpaper. tattered dust jacket in pieces laid in. A scholarly work on the "gay couple" ("gay" as in joyous, not otherwise), that engaging pair of lovers in 17th century ciomedy to whom courtship is a game and a duel of wits. With sections on the "Love Duel in English Comedy before the Restoration", Platonicism and anti-platonicism after 1660; gay comedy 1660-1675; cynical comedy 1675-1687, etc.
