“Considerately woven out of our selves”: The Attractions of Speech in Thomas Killigrew’s Comedies

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“Considerately woven out of our selves”: The Attractions of Speech in Thomas Killigrew’s Comedies

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fr De son vivant déjà, on disait du dramaturge Thomas Killigrew (1612-83) qu’il possédait un art consommé de la conversation. Malgré le regain d’intérêt que suscitent ses œuvres et le fait que l’on reconnaisse à ses personnages une aptitude pour les joutes verbales, la critique moderne n’a accordé que peu d’attention aux manifestations du bel esprit dans ses pièces. Cet article se propose d’étudier la nature des dialogues comiques de The Parson’s Wedding et de Thomaso ; or the Wanderer, ainsi que les usages qu’en fait Killigrew, et plus particulièrement de mettre en évidence ce qu’ils doivent à l’exubérance langagière du dramaturge et aux ambitions « littéraires » qui caractérisent l’édition folio de ses pièces, parue en 1664.
en Even in his own lifetime the dramatist Thomas Killigrew (1612-1683) acquired the reputation of an accomplished and witty conversationalist. Despite the renewed interest in his works and the vague recognition that raillery is the forte of his dramatic characters, modern criticism has paid scant attention to the manifestations of this wit in the language of his plays. It has been my purpose to assess the nature of comic speeches and the uses to which they are put in The Parson’s Wedding and Thomaso; or the Wanderer, more particularly in relation to Killigrew’s characteristic copiousness of expression and the “literary” ambitions underlying the 1664 edition of the plays.

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Motten, J. P. Vander

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Société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
XVII-XVIII

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2017-01-19

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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
article

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urn:doi:10.4000/1718.762
http://journals.openedition.org/1718/762

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en

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info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0291-3798
info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2117-590X

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