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- W2134733110 abstract "Durfey’s comedies, the early ones in particular, have been often considered farcical, even nonsensical, rather than satirical. This paper explores the hybrid nature of Durfey’s work, in which farcical externals often veil a grim view of the ways of his time. Some Restoration comedies are predominantly farcical, others border on satire, and even those intrinsically comic may be very different, since they may emulate Jonson’s humours style or, following Fletcher, focus on love intrigue. I have already written on these generic ambivalences, but focusing on the Restoration playwrights’ theoretical views (2001). Now I will deal with their presence in Durfey’s comedies. The central issue will be the potential compatibility of farcical implausibility and entertainment with satiric objectives. Can satire, the most punitive of genres, be embedded in a farcical background? Critics of Wycherley and Otway will probably see no problem: a frequent use of asides, implausibility, and clownish behaviour do not undermine the social or political reflections, the complexity of the self, the tension between desire and social norms, etc, all those qualities we tend to identify with maturer genres, comedy and satire, rather than with farce. But Durfey seems a less complex playwright: there has been a tendency to see him as a songwriter and entertainer soaping a court elite, and Charles II leaning on his shoulder and sharing a song. It is not my purpose to vindicate Durfey as one of the best playwrights of the Restoration: he was not. Still, he was very prolific, perhaps excessively so (thirty plays including two operas and a lost comedy), and certainly one of the few professionals (though not always successful) of the theatre, with Dryden, Shadwell and Behn. Some of his plays deserve much more attention than they have received. Before analyzing the hybrid nature of some of Durfey’s plays, an" @default.
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- W2134733110 title "Farcical innocuousness versus morality and satire in the comedies of Thomas Durfey" @default.
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