6. RESTAURACIÓN Y SIGLO XVIII

EL TEATRO DEL SIGLO XVIII — Tampoco es la época más fructífera del teatro inglés, como podéis ver en vuestros manuales de literatura. Siguen algunos enlaces y temas.



RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN     (1751-1816)

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The Rivals. Drama. 1775.
_____. St Patrick’s Day; or the Scheming Lieutenant. 1775.
_____. The Duenna. Comic opera. Music by Thomas Linley Sr. and Thomas Linley the younger. First performed at Covent Garden, 21 Nov.  1775.
_____. A Trip to Scarborough. Drama. 1777. Adaptation of Vanbrugh’s The Relapse.
_____. The School for Scandal. 1777.
_____. The Critic; or a Tragedy Rehearsed. 1779.
_____. Pizarro. Drama. 1799. Adapted from Kotzebue.




OLIVER GOLDSMITH (c. 1730-1774)

_____. The Good-Natured Man. Drama. 1768.
_____. "Essay on the Theatre: A Comparison between Sentimental and Laughing Comedy." Westminster Magazine (1773).
_____. She Stoops to Conquer. Comedy. Premiere at Covent Garden, 15 March 1773.

Sobre Goldsmith y She Stoops to Conquer, aquí hay una introducción / comentario:

Tom Davis, introducción a She Stoops to Conquer: http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/11/she-stoops-to-conquer.html


Vida y obra de Goldsmith (J. H. Plumb).


   

—y aquí puede verse una versión "al estilo Facebook" de la obra: She Stoops to Conquer, por los estudiantes de teatro de la universidad de Utah:





Hablando de Facebook, aquí está la dirección en Facebook de EL GRAN TEATRO DEL MUNDO: https://www.facebook.com/elgranteatrodelmundo . Allí podéis ver The Rivals, de Richard Brinsley Sheridan, y algunas obras del siglo XIX.





Richard Cumberland, The West Indian. 1771.


George Colman, Polly Honeycombe. 1760.

 


DAVID GARRICK         (1717-1779)  —posiblemente el actor más importante de la historia del teatro inglés.

(Major 18th-century English actor, also dramatist and theatrical manager, disciple and friend of Samuel Johnson)


Works

Garrick, David. Catherine and Petruchio. Adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. 1754.
_____. The Country Girl. Comedy. 1766. Adaptation of Wycherley’s The Country Wife.
_____. Peep Behind the Curtain. 1767.
Colman, George, and David Garrick. The Clandestine Marriage. 1766.




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The Garrick Years: http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2015/01/the-garrick-years.html


Una conferencia sobre David Garrick:
Simon Callow on Garrick: the 2014 Garrick Lecture (audio): http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2014/06/simon-callow-the-2014-garrick-lecture/



Garrick, Shakespeare, y "La paradoja del comediante": http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2013/10/garrick-shakespeare-y-la-paradoja-del.html



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HENRY FIELDING  (1707-Lisbon, 1754)

_____. Love in Several Masques. Comedy. 1728.
_____. The Author's Farce And the Pleasures of the Town. 1730.
_____. The Tragedy of Tragedies, or Tom Thumb the Great. 1730-31.
_____. The Covent Garden Tragedy. 1732.
_____. The Mock Doctor.1732. Adaptation of Molière's Le Médecin Malgré Lui.
 _____. The Miser. 1733. Adaptation of Molière's L'Avare.
_____. Don Quixote in England. Comedy. 1736.
_____. Pasquin. Farce. 1737.
_____. The Historical Register for the Year 1736. Farce. 1737.



















JOHN GAY     (¿1685-1732)

 

_____. Three Hours After Marriage. Comedy. Written in collaboration with Pope and Arbuthnot. Acted 1717.
_____.  (attr.). Acis and Galatea. Libretto for Handel’s opera. Written c. 1718, pub. 1732.
_____. The Beggar’s Opera. Musical comedy, with music by Pepusch. Premiere at Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, 1728.
    http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25063/25063-h/25063-h.htm
_____. Polly. Satirical musical. 1729. (Vs. Walpole; banned before production; 1st prod. 1777).
_____. Achilles. Libretto (opera prod. Covent Garden, 1733).









NICHOLAS ROWE  (1674-1718)

_____. The Ambitious Step-Mother. Tragedy. 1700.
_____. Tamerlane. Tragedy. 1701.
_____. The Fair Penitent. Tragedy. 1703. Based on Massinger and Field's The Fatal Dowry.
_____. Ulysses. Drama. 1705.
_____. The Royal Convert. 1707.
_____. The Biter. Comedy.
_____. "Some Account of the Life, &c. of Mr. Wiliam Shakespear." Prefixed to Rowe's ed. of The Works of Mr. William Shakespear. 1709.
_____. The Tragedy of Jane Shore. Acted 1714.
_____. The Tragedy of Lady Jane Grey. 1715.
_____, ed. The Works of Mr William Shakespear. 1709. (Octavo, illust., including apocrypha). 3rd ed. 1714.




JAMES THOMSON     (1700-1748)

_____. Sophonisba. Tragedy. 1730.
_____. Agamemnon. Tragedy. 1738.
_____. Tancred and Sigismunda. Tragedy. 1745.



JOSEPH ADDISON         (1672-1719)

_____. Rosamond. Opera. 1707.
_____. Cato: A Tragedy. 1713.
_____. The Drummer. Comedy.

Joseph Addison, English journalist and poet, b. Milston, Wiltshire, son of the rector; st. Charterhouse, Queen's College, Oxford, fellow Magdalen College, Oxford; associated to Whig party; grand Tour 1699-1703; Whig agent and politician, Secretary of State 1718, m. a countess late in life, unhappy marriage.


RICHARD STEELE     (1672-1729)


_____. The Tender Husband. Drama. 1705.
_____.  (Vs. Restoration drama). Spectator 65 (1711).
_____. The Conscious Lovers. Drama. Prod. Nov. 1722.
_____. The Lying Lover. Drama.
_____. Dramatic Works. 1723, 1734.

(Richard Steele, English journalist and dramatist, Whig activist, collab. with Addison; Knighted 1715)

A PARTIR DE AQUÍ —Siguiendo hacia arriba— pasamos al teatro del siglo XVIII "proper"

Jeremy Collier, A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698)


Terminamos el año con una panorámica del teatro de la Restauración y del XVIII

Aqui hay unas notas sobre el teatro a finales del XVII y principios del XVIII:  Louis Cazamian, "The Theatre of the Restoration." From Legouis and Cazamian's History of English Literature:
    http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/10/the-theatre-of-restoration-by-louis.html



Abundan otros materiales a distancia de clic. La Comedia de la Restauración (Wikipedia):
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedia_de_la_Restauraci%C3%B3n


"William Congreve." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.*
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Congreve

—Y en este libro de Norman Holland—The First Modern Comedies— hay un capítulo sobre The Way of the World.




Other Restoration dramatists:

THOMAS SOUTHERNE     (1660-1746)

(Augustan dramatist, b. Dublin, l. London)


Works

Southerne, Thomas. The Loyal Brother. Drama. 1682.
_____. The Disappointment. Drama. 1684.
_____. Sir Anthony Love. Drama. 1690.
_____. The Wives Excuse. Drama. 1692.
_____. The Maid's Last Prayer. Drama. 1693.
_____. The Fatal Marriage, or the Innocent Adultery. Drama. 1694.
_____. Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave. Drama. Prod. Nov. 1695. Pub. London, 1696. Based on the novel by Aphra Behn.
_____. The Fate of Capua. Drama. 1700.
_____. Money the Mistress. Drama. 1726.
_____. Works. 2 vols. 1713.




NATHANIEL LEE     (c. 1649-1692)

_____. The Tragedy of Nero. Drama. 1674.
_____. Sophonisba; or, Hannibal's Overthrow. Tragedy. 1675.
_____. Gloriana. Tragedy. 1676.
_____. The Rival Queens, or the Death of Alexander the Great. Drama. 1677.
_____. Mithridates, King of Pontus. Drama. 1678.
_____. Caesar Borgia. Drama. 1680.
_____. Theodosius, or the Force of Love. Drama. 1680.
_____. Lucius Junius Brutus. Drama. 1680.
_____. Constantine the Great. Drama. 1684.
_____. The Princess of Cleve. Drama. 1689.

Lee, Nathaniel Lee and John Dryden. Oedipus, King of Thebes.  Tragedy. 1679.
_____. The Duke of Guise. Drama. 1682.

From Oedipus: "Music for a While", by Henry Purcell. Here is a jazz version, or two:









THOMAS OTWAY      (1652-1685)

_____. Alcibiades. Heroic play. 1675.
_____. Don Carlos. Heroic play. 1676.
_____. Titus and Berenice. Heroic play. 1676. (Based on Racine's Bérénice ).
 _____. Cheats of Scapin. Comedy. 1677? Based on Molière.
_____. Friendship in Fashion. Comedy. 1678.
_____. The History and Fall of Caius Marius. Drama. 1680.
_____. The Orphan. Tragedy 1680.
_____. Venice Preserv'd, or a Plot Discover'd. Tragicomedy. 1682.
_____. The Atheist. Drama. 1684.



WILLIAM CONGREVE     (1670-1729)


Works

William Congreve

_____. The Old Bachelor. Comedy. 1693.
_____. The Double Dealer. Drama. 1693.
_____. Love for Love. Comedy. 1695.
_____. The Mourning Bride. Drama. 1697.
_____. The Way of the World. Comedy. 1700.
https://archive.org/stream/thewayoftheworld01292gut/wwrld10.txt

On Congreve and The Way of the World.


Against Congreve and Restoration drama:

Jeremy Collier, A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage. 1698.



Sir John Vanbrugh     (1664-1726)

_____.  The Relapse, or Virtue in Danger. Drama. 1697. Continuation of Colley Cibber's Love's Last Shift.
_____. The Provok'd Wife. Drama. 1697.
_____. A Short Vindication of the Relapse and the Provok'd Wife from Immorality and Profaneness. 1698.
_____. The Pilgrim. Drama. Epilogue by John Dryden. 1700.
_____. The False Friend. Drama. 1702. Adapted from Le Sage.
_____. The Country House. Drama. 1703. Trans. from Dancourt.
_____. The Confederacy. Drama. 1705. Trans. from Dancourt.
_____. The Mistake. Drama. 1705. Adapted from Molière.
_____. The Cuckold in Conceit. Drama. 1707. Adapted from Moliére.

Vanbrugh, a playwright and architect, built Blenheim Palace (you can see it at the Dido and Aeneas video), Haymarket Theatre; Clarendon Building at Oxford, with N. Hawksmoor.






GEORGE FARQUHAR  (1678-1707)
       
(British dramatist, b. North Ireland, l. London)


Farquhar, George. Love and a Bottle. Comedy. 1698.
_____. The Adventures of Covent Garden. Comedy. 1699.
_____. The Constant Couple, or a Trip to the Jubilee. Comedy. 1700.
_____. Sir Harry Wildair. Comedy. 1701.
_____. The Inconstant. comedy. 1702.
_____. "A Discourse upon Comedy, in Reference to the English Stage." 1702.
_____. The Twin Rivals. Comedy. 1702.
_____. The Stage-Coach. Comedy. 1704.
_____. The Recruiting Officer. Comedy. 1706.
_____. The Beaux' Stratagem. Comedy. 1707.





Mary Pix, The Innocent Mistress. 1697

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Más sobre teatro inglés en EL GRAN TEATRO DEL MUNDO.






JOHN DRYDEN         (1631-1700)

_____. The Wild Gallant. Comedy. 1663.
_____. The Rival Ladies. Tragicomedy. 1664.
_____. The Indian Queen. By Sir Robert Howard, with John Dryden. 1664, printed 1665. (Music by Henry Purcell)
_____. The Indian Emperor, or The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. Heroic drama. 1665.
_____. Sir Martin Mar-all, or the Feigned Innocence. Comedy. 1667, pub. 1668. Based on Molière's L'Etourdi.
_____. Secret Love, or The Maiden Queen. Tragicomedy. 1667. Based on Scudéry's Le Grand Cyrus.
_____. The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island. Operatic adaptation, with William Davenant. 1667, prod. 1670.
_____. Of Dramatic Poesy: An Essay. 1668.
_____. Tyrannick love, or , The Royal Martyr. Drama. 1669.
_____. Almanzor and Almahide, or The Conquest of Granada. Drama. 2 parts, 1669, 1670. Pub. 1672. ("Of Heroic Plays: Prefatory Essay to The Conquest of Granada", 1672).
_____. An Evening's Love. Drama. 1671.
_____. The Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery. Drama. 1672.
_____. Marriage à la Mode. Drama. 1672.
_____. The State of Innocence and Fall of Man: An Opera. (Based on Milton's Paradise Lost ). 1674 (Not performed).
_____. Aureng-Zebe. Heroic drama. 1676.
_____. All for Love; or, The World Well Lost. Tragedy. 1677, prod. 1678.
T_____. Mr. Limberham, or The Kind Keeper. 1678.
_____. Oedipus. Drama. 1679. With Nathaniel Lee.
_____. Troilus and Cressida, or Truth Found too Late. Tragedy. pr. 1679. ("The Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy: The Preface to Troilus and Cressida." 1679).
_____. The Spanish Fryar, or The Double Discovery. Tragicomedy. 1680.
_____. The Duke of Guise. Drama. With Nathaniel Lee. 1682.
_____. Albion and Albanius. Libretto for Louis Grabu's opera. 1685. (Failed). ("Musical Drama: The Preface to Albion and Albanius, An Opera." 1685).
_____. Amphitryon. Comedy. 1690.
_____. Don Sebastian. Drama. 1690.
____. King Arthur or The British Worthy. Dramatic opera. Music by Purcell. 1691.
_____. Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero. Tragedy. 1692.
_____. Love Triumphant, or Nature Will Prevail. Drama. 1694.
_____. The Secular Masque. 1700.

Dryden was the major English man of letters of his time, a poet, dramatist and critic; b. Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire; st. Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge; Parliamentarian protestant background, soon Anglican Royalist courtier, converted to catholicism 1686; successful playwright, Poet Laureate 1668; Historiographer Royal 1670; Tory satirist and polemist vs. Whigs; lost jobs in 1688 Revolution; then jacobite; neoclassical critic and translator; influential dramatist, poet and critic, d. London; buried at Westminster Abbey after some grotesque incidents.
Cosas de Dryden... Bueno, mirad también su página de Luminarium.
La poesía dramática de Dryden: dos despedidas definitivas en All for Love.


En la semiópera de Dryden "King Arthur," con música de Purcell, se encuentra una curiosa canción, "Cold Song." Aquí la canta Klaus Nomi:


También existe en versión ópera rock.


Las colaboraciones y versiones de Dryden son innumerables. Aquí hay, de una versión que hizo de Edipo Rey, junto con Nathaniel Lee, y también con números musicales de Purcell, una canción sobre el encantamiento de la música, "Music for a While": http://youtu.be/CpVonMf8DYM

Contra Dryden:


George Villers, Duke of BUCKINGHAM, et al. The Rehearsal. Comedy. 1671.


Some Restoration dramatists:

SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT  ( 1605-1668)

_____. The Wits. Comedy. c. 1633.
_____. Love and Honour. Heroic play. 1634, pub. 1649.  Revived 1661.
_____. News from Plymouth. Comedy . 1635.
_____. The Temple of Love. Masque. Premiere performed by Queen Henrietta Maria and her ladies. 1635.
_____. Britannia Triumphans. Masque. 1638.
_____. Salmacida Spolia. Masque. 1640.
_____. Gondibert. Epic poem. 1650.
_____. The First Day’s Entertainment at Rutland House. Operatic poem. 1656.
_____. The Siege of Rhodes. Operatic drama in two parts. Part 1 performed 1656, 1657.
_____. The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru. Operatic drama. 1658.
_____. The History of Sir Francis Drake. Operatic drama. 1659.
_____. The Law Against Lovers. Drama.1662. (Based on Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure and Much Ado About Nothing).
_____. Macbeth. Operatic adaptation. 1673.
_____. Playhouse to Be Let. Adapted from Molière.

Davenant, William, and John Dryden. The Tempest or The Enchanted Island.  Operatic adaptation of Shakespeare’s work. 1667.

Davenant was a Royalist poet, dramatist and dramatic producer; the son of an Oxford tavern-keeper, godson and self-reputed illegitimate son of Shakespeare; st. All Saints grammar school, Oxford, and Lincoln College, page to Frances Duchess of Richmond, patronized by Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, court dramatist and poet, laureate at the Queen’s wish 1638, named governor of the King’s and Queen’s players at Drury Lane 1639; Cavalier activist, imprisoned by Parliamentarians, escape to France, lieutenant-general in the Earl of Newcastle’s army, knighted 1643 for service at the siege of Gloucester, emissary between the King and Queen, l. Paris, Louvre, projected colonist, imprisoned at Wight and the Tower of London, seemingly protected by Milton, later repaid favour, released, organiser of musical dramatic events, Theatre at Rutland House, Charterhouse Yard, 1656-, reviver of drama after Puritan interruption; licensed impresario after Restoration with the Duke’s Company, died insolvent, buried at Westminster Abbey.


Other works:


THOMAS KILLIGREW     (1611-1684)


_____. The Parson's Wedding. Comedy. Written Basle, ante 1640, rev. c. 1663. In Killigrew's 1664 folio. In Hazzlitt's Dodsley.
_____. The Prisoners. Tragicomedy. 1641. In Killigrew's 1664 folio.
_____. Claracilla. Tragicomedy. Written at Rome, 1641. In Killigrew's 1664 folio.
_____. The Princess; or, Love at First Sight. Tragicomedy. Written at Naples. In Killigrew's 1664 folio.
_____. The Pilgrim. Tragedy. Written at Paris. In Killigrew's 1664 folio.
_____. Cecilia and Clorinda; or, Love in Arms. Tragicomedy. 1st part written at Turin, 2nd part written at Florence. In Killigrew's 1664 folio.
_____. Don Thomaso, or The Wanderer.  Comedy in 2 parts. Written at Madrid. 1664. In Killigrew's 1664 folio.
_____. Bellamira, her Dream; or, The Love of Shadows. Tragicomedy. Written at Venice. In Killigrew's 1664 folio.
_____. (Plays, folio). 1664.


Thomas Killigrew, son of Sir Robert Killegrew, b. Hanworth Middlesex: courtier, page to Charles I, exile with Charles II, socialite and wit, collected funds for the exiled court among Royalists; m. Cecilia Crofts; master of Revels and groom of the bedchamber after the Restoration; said to be "jester" to the King, leader of the King's Company at Drury Lane Theatre.


French models: Scudéry, Quinault; Corneille, Molière.

Spanish models:
Samuel Tuke: The Adventures of Five Hours.
George Digby: Elvira.

Actresses: Nell Gwynn, Elizabeth Barry.

Sobre Elizabeth Barry, Rochester y el teatro de la Restauración versa la película protagonizada por Johnny Depp THE LIBERTINE.
The Libertine. Dir. Lawrence Dunmore. Written by Stephen Jeffreys, based on his play (on the 2nd Earl of Rochester). Cast. Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton, John Malkovich, Paul Ritter, Francesca Annis, Rosamund Pike, Tom Hollander, Johnny Vegas, Richard Coyle, Tom Burke, Hugh Sachs, Rupert Friend, Kelly Reilly, Jack Davenport, Trudi Jackson, Clare Higgins, Freddy Jones. Music by Michael Nyman. Photog. Alexander Melman. Ed. Jill Bilcock. Prod. des. Ben van Os. Art dir. Patrick Rolfe. Set decor. Robert Winchhusen-Hayes. Costumes by Dien van Straalen. Prod. Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich, Russell Smith. Odyssey Entertainment / Isle of Man Films / Mr Mudd Productions, 2004. DVD Aurum, 2006. Spanish DVD (The Libertine). Aurum/Historia, 2012.

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STAGE BEAUTY (Belleza prohibida) es una película de Richard Eyre sobre el drama en la Restauración. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368658/

Aquí hay en todo caso un comentario sobre una escena de Stage Beauty y la identidad personal como teatro: http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/10/una-escena-de-stage-beauty.html




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Opera:

John Blow's Venus and Adonis (1683)

Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (1689):






George Etherege (1634-1691)

_____. The Comical Revenge, or Love in a Tub. Comedy. 1664.
_____. She Wou'd if She Cou'd. Comedy. 1668.
_____. The Man of Mode, or, Sir Fopling Flutter.  1676.


William Wycherley (1641-1715)

_____. Love in a Wood, or St. James's Park. Drama. 1671.
_____. The Gentleman Dancing-Master. Comedy. 1672.
_____. The Country Wife. Comedy. 1675.
_____. The Plain Dealer. Comedy. 1676.



William Congreve (1670-1729)

_____. The Old Bachelor. Comedy. 1693.
_____. Love for Love. Comedy. 1695.
_____. The Mourning Bride. Tragedy. 1697.
_____. The Way of the World. Comedy. 1700.


Aphra Behn  (1640-1689)

_____. The Forc’d Marriage. Drama. 1670.
_____. The Amorous Prince. Heroic drama. 1671.
_____. The Dutch Lover. Drama. 1672.
_____. The Town-Fop; or, Sir Timothy Tawdry. Comedy. 1676.
_____. Abdelazer; or the Moor’s Revenge.  Tragedy. 1676.
_____. The Rover, or, the Banish’t Cavaliers. Comedy. 2 parts. 1677, 1681.
_____. Sir Patient Fancy. Comedy. 1678.
_____. The Feigned Curtezans. Comedy. 1679.
_____. The Young King; or The Mistake. Heroic drama. 1679.
_____. The City Heiress; or, Sir Timothy Treat-All. Comedy. 1682.
_____. The Round-Heads: or, The Good Old Cause.  Satiric drama. 1682.
_____. The False Count; or, a New Way to Play an Old Game. Farce. 1682.
_____. Love Letters between a Nobleman and His Sister.  Novel. 1684.
_____. The Lucky Chance; or , an Alderman’s Bargain. Comedy. 1687.
_____. The Emperor of the Moon. Farce. 1687.
_____. Three Stories, viz. Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave; The Fair Jilt, and Agnes de Castro.  Novellas. 1688.















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Utilizaremos el texto de SAMSON AGONISTES.


Nivel avanzado: Aquí hay una conferencia de Yale sobre Samson Agonistes  de Milton (una de dos por el mismo profesor):






—forma parte, como veréis de todo un curso sobre Milton, only for the real fans.














Aquí una lista de las principales obras de

JOHN MILTON         (1608-1674)

Early works
_____. "On Shakespear." Sonnet. 1630.
_____. "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso." Poems, early 1630s. In Poems. 1645.
_____. Arcades. Masque. Early 1630s.
_____. A MASKE / PRESENTED / At Ludlow Castle, / 1634 (Comus).
(Comus tiene música de Henry Lawes, que también representó el papel del Espíritu que rescata a la damisela).

_____. "Ad Patrem." Latin poem. Pub. 1645.
_____. "Lycidas." Pastoral elegy. 1637. In Poems of Mr. John Milton. 1645.

Works 1640-1660

_____. Of Reformation Touching Church Discipline in England. 1641.
_____. The Reason of Church Government Urg'd Against Prelaty. 1641-42.
_____. The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. 1643.
_____. Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the four chief places of Scripture which treat of Marriage. 1644.
_____. Of Education. 1644.
_____. Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr John Milton For the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, To the Parliament of England. 1644.
_____. Poems / of / Mr. John Milton, / both / English and Latin, / 1645.
_____. The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. 1649.
_____. EIKONOCLASTES: in answer to a Book, entitled, Eikon Basilike, the Portraiture of his sacred Majesty in his Solitudes and Sufferings. 1649.
_____. Pro populo Anglicano Defensio. Political pamphlet. 1651. (Vs. Salmasius, pro Commonwealth).
_____. The Readie and Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth. 1660.

Main works – later works
_____. Paradise lost. / A / POEM  / Written in / TEN BOOKS / 1667-1669.
_____. Paradise Lost. / A / POEM / IN / TWELVE BOOKS. / The Author / JOHN MILTON. / The Second Edition With a prefatory poem by Andrew Marvell. 1674.
_____.  History of Britain. 1670.
_____. PARADISE / REGAIN'D. / A / POEM. / In IV BOOKS. / To which is added / SAMSON AGONISTES. 1671.
_____. Samson Agonistes: https://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/samson/drama/text.shtml
_____. De Doctrina Christiana. Theological treatise (Unpublished until the 19th century).
_____. Poems, &c. / upon / Several Occasions. / by / Mr. John Milton: / 1673.


 John Milton was an English poet, the son of John Milton, London musician and scrivener; st. Christ's College, Cambridge, BA 1628, MA 1632; turned vs. Anglicanism, then private study at father's house in Horton, Buckinghamshire; tour of Italy late 30s; private tutor and active Protestant pamphleteer and polemicist in London; married  Mary Powell, of Royalist family, 1643, estranged for some time, advocated divorce; reconciliation with wife, austere and authoritarian patriarch, militant masculinist, Independent critic of Presbyterians, Latin secretary to the Commonwealth, supported regicide, apologist of Cromwell; blind 1652; wife d. after childbirth, 3 surviving daughters; son John died; m. Katharine Woodcock, d. after childbirth; m. Elizabeth Minshull after Restoration (no surviving children from later wives); protected Royalists under war and Commonwealth and was protected by Davenant and Marvell after Restoration, fined but pardoned, abandoned political activity, private life as man of letters, historian, theologian and neoclassical poet, helped by his wife and visitors, organ player for recreation; suffered from gout, buried at St. Giles, Cripplegate.





Una lección sobre Paradise Lost, de Ian Johnston: http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/Eng200/milton.htm

NIVEL AVANZADO:
BBC In Our Time- John Milton (audio): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548bg
—and another audio on the other side of the Civil War: The Divine Right of Kings

Recordad que tenéis páginas de casi todos estos autores, con vida, obras, etc., en sitios web como Luminarium: http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/milton/miltbib.htm

Algo del teatro de la Commonwealth. Elegimos como autor rezagado de esta época a Milton y su Samson Agonistes. Pero quien desee leer más al respecto encontrará aquí unas notas sobre THE CAROLINE AND COMMONWEALTH THEATRE.


De este juicio se libró Milton: una dramatización del juicio a los regicidas al llegar la Restauración de la monarquía.








JAMES SHIRLEY  (1596-1666)


_____. The Traitor.  Tragedy. 1631.
_____. The Ball. Drama. 1632. (With George Chapman).
_____. Hyde Park. Comedy. 1632.
_____. The Gamester. Comedy. 1633.
_____. The Bird in a Cage. Drama. 1632-3.
_____. The Example. Drama. 1634.
_____. The Triumph of Peace. Masque. Performed Gray’s Inn 1634.
_____. The Lady of Pleasure. Comedy. 1635.
_____. St. Patrick for Ireland.  1640. 
_____. The Cardinal. Tragedy. 1641.
_____. Cupid and Death. Masque. Performed at London, 1653, 1659.
_____. Honoria and Mammon. Pub. 1659.
_____. Assistant to Ogilby in his trans. of Homer’s Iliads and Odysses.


James Shirley, English dramatist, b. London; st. Oxford and Cambridge; curate at Hertfordshire; teacher at St. Alban’s grammar school, turned Catholic 1624; then London, playwright for Cockpit theatre; 1630s l. at Gray’s Inn, servant to Queen Henrietta Maria; twice married, several children; 1637 playwright in Dublin, Royalist soldier and assistant to the Duke of Newcastle during Civil Wars; teacher at Whitefriars during the Commonwealth; well off but ruined in Great Fire, died then.




Other plays

Philip Massinger, A New Way to Pay Old Debts. 1625.
_____. The City Madam. 1632.
 
John Ford, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. 1632.

John Kirke, The Seven Champions of Christendom.  c. 1638.

Walter Montague. The Shepherd's Paradise. 1632.

Duke of Newcastle. The Variety. 1641.

Richard Overton, Canterbury His Change of Diet. 1641.

Richard Brome, A Jovial Crew. 1641.
______. The Antipodes. 1638.

Against drama:

Prynne, William. Histrio-Mastix, The Players' Scourge. 1633.


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Aquí una canción de Edmund Waller que recordaréis de la asignatura de historia literaria. Los Cavaliers con frecuencia se preciaban de saber componer, tocar y cantar canciones, una forma de teatralizar sus sentimientos y su papel como caballeros renacentistas en el mundo competitivo de la Corte y de la aristocracia.




Go, lovely Rose!

Tell her, that wastes her time and me,

That now she knows

When I resemble her to thee,

How sweet and fair she seems to be.

 

Tell her that's young

And shuns to have her graces spied,

That hadst thou sprung

In deserts, where no men abide,

Thou must have uncommended died.



Small is the worth

Of beauty from the light retired:

Bid her come forth,

Suffer herself to be desired,

And not blush to be so admired.



Then die! that she

The common fate of all things rare

May read in thee:

How small a part of time they share

That are so wondrous sweet and fair!


Existe la música de la canción, de Henry Lawes, uno de los mejores compositores de la época carolina.

También puso música Henry Lawes a las canciones de Carew, y a las masques de Milton.

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