Add this copy of The Gay Couple in Restoration Comedy to cart. $18.00, very good condition, Sold by Crabtree's Collection rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sebago, ME, UNITED STATES, published 1948 by Harvard Univ Press.
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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.
Add this copy of Gay Couple in Restoration Comedy to cart. $21.00, good condition, Sold by bookbooth rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Berea, OH, UNITED STATES, published 1948 by Harvard University Press.
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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."
Add this copy of The Gay Couple in Restoration Comedy to cart. $22.00, very good condition, Sold by Old Book Shop of Bordentown rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bordentown, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1948 by Harvard University Press.
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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.
Add this copy of The Gay Couple in Restoration Comedy to cart. $22.44, good condition, Sold by Books From California rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Simi Valley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1948 by Harvard University Press.
