Crabbed Age and Youth: The Old Men and Women in the Restoration Comedy of Manners |
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Page 26
... Widow can still accept a " Billet from the pret- tiest Creature of Sixteen . " 46 But Vanbrugh's Corinna , aged sixteen , has the awful knowledge that she is three years past marriageable age . At sixteen it is time to make shift in ...
... Widow can still accept a " Billet from the pret- tiest Creature of Sixteen . " 46 But Vanbrugh's Corinna , aged sixteen , has the awful knowledge that she is three years past marriageable age . At sixteen it is time to make shift in ...
Page 37
... widow , and the farcical epi- sodes centering on the misadventures of Monsieur Du- foy , the valet , there is no figure in or approaching the senile state . The wealthy widow , Mrs. Rich , unlike later Restoration widows , is ...
... widow , and the farcical epi- sodes centering on the misadventures of Monsieur Du- foy , the valet , there is no figure in or approaching the senile state . The wealthy widow , Mrs. Rich , unlike later Restoration widows , is ...
Page 54
... Widow Blackacre . the Widow herself , and Lady Autumn are those figures displaying senile folly . By his own statement Major Oldfox is " of equal years " with the Widow . Yet he is 41 Act I , sc . i , p . 255 . 43 Act V , sc . iv , p ...
... Widow Blackacre . the Widow herself , and Lady Autumn are those figures displaying senile folly . By his own statement Major Oldfox is " of equal years " with the Widow . Yet he is 41 Act I , sc . i , p . 255 . 43 Act V , sc . iv , p ...
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