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Updating the Restoration Libertine in Tanika Gupta's Contemporary Adaptation of William Wycherley's The Country Wife

Year 2009, Volume: 12 Issue: 2, 61 - 74, 01.04.2009

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References

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  • Brown, Laura. English Dramatic Form, 1660-1760: An Essay in Generic History. New Haven: Yale UP, 1981.
  • Dobree, Bonamy. Restoration Comedy, 1660-1720. London: Read Books, 2007 [originally published 1924].
  • Duncan, Douglas. “Mythic Parody in The Country Wife.” ELC 31 (1981): 299-312.
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  • Gilbert, Helen, and Joanne Tompkins. Eds. Post-Colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics. London and New York: Routledge, 1996.
  • Gupta, Tanika. Fragile Land. London: Oberon, 2003.
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  • - White Boy. London: Oberon, 2008.
  • Holdsworth, Nadine, and Mary Luckhurst. Eds. A Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama. Oxford, MA and Victoria: Blackwell, 2008.
  • King, Bruce. The Internationalization of English Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004.
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  • Matalene, H. W. “What Happens in The Country Wife.” Studies in English Literature 22 (1982): 395-411.
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  • Thompson, Peggy. “The Limits of Parody in The Country Wife.” Studies in Philology 89.1 (1992): 100-115.
  • Turner, James Grantham. Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London: Sexuality, Politics, and Literary Culture, 1630-1685. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.
  • Weber, Harold. “The Restoration Rake in Wycherley and Congreve.” Philological Quarterly 61 (1982): 143-60.
  • Weber, Harold. “Horner and His ‘Women of Honour’: The Dinner Party in The Country Wife.” Modern Language Quarterly 43 (1982): 107-20.
  • Wycherley, William, The Country Wife (1675): a machine-readable transcript. Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey. 1997 [from William Wycherley. The Country Wife: A comedy, Acted at the Theatre Royal. London: Thomas Dring, 1675].

Updating the Restoration Libertine in Tanika Gupta's Contemporary Adaptation of William Wycherley's The Country Wife

Year 2009, Volume: 12 Issue: 2, 61 - 74, 01.04.2009

Abstract

try Wife adlı oyununun, özellikle 1600 ve 1670’lerde popüler olan “cinsellik” veya “evlilik” komedisinin temelini oluşturan çapkın karakterini esas aldığı çağdaş versiyonunu inceler . Bu oyunu, çok-kültürlü Londra’da yeniden canlandırarak, Gupta çağdaş genç melez topluluklardaki cinsiyet ve evlilik normlarını eleştirir, saldırgan ataerkil kadın düşmanına örnek erkek kimliklerini problematize eder ve kadın ve erkeklerin birey olarak eşlerini seçme hakkını vurgular. Aynı zamanda, erken dönem modern cinsellik komedilerindeki çapkınlık etosu üzerinde de durulmuştur. Çapkın karakterine, onyedinci yüzyıldan günümüze kadarki ahlaki ve sosyal yaklaşımlar, onu genellikle ya hoş bir özgürlük arayışçısı ya da tedirgin bir kadın düşmanı olarak değerlendirmiştir. Wycherley’nin oyunu çapkın karakterini onaylamakla beraber, onu sonunda ataerkil sosyal düzeni bozmaya kalkıştığı için suçlar ve isyankar üst-sınıf kadınlarını ataerkil otoriteye geri döndürüp, Homer’i de iktidarsızlıkla cezalandırırken, Gupta’nın Hardeep/Homer karakteri “köylü gelinin” mutsuz bir evlilikten kurtulmasını sağlar ve kadın çapkınları, Dolly ve Daisy, yeni serüvenlere açık zevk düşkünü yabancılar olarak kalırlar. Gupta’nın oyunu, Restorasyon döneminin - özellikle ahlak, evlilik, ataerkillik ve sınıf kavramları üzerine yoğunlaşan- sosyal tartışmaları ile, kendi oyununda ele aldığı yirmibirinci yüzyıl Londrası şehir hayatındaki etnik içerikli kültürel kimlik, evlilik ve cinsiyet hakları ile ilgili tartışmaları arasında paralellik kurar

References

  • Birdsall, Virginia. Wild Civility: The English Comic Spirit on the Restoration Stage. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1970.
  • Brown, Laura. English Dramatic Form, 1660-1760: An Essay in Generic History. New Haven: Yale UP, 1981.
  • Dobree, Bonamy. Restoration Comedy, 1660-1720. London: Read Books, 2007 [originally published 1924].
  • Duncan, Douglas. “Mythic Parody in The Country Wife.” ELC 31 (1981): 299-312.
  • Freedman, William. “Impotence and Self-Destruction in The Country Wife.” ES 53.5 (1972): 421-431.
  • Gilbert, Helen, and Joanne Tompkins. Eds. Post-Colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics. London and New York: Routledge, 1996.
  • Gupta, Tanika. Fragile Land. London: Oberon, 2003.
  • - William Wycherley’s The Country Wife: A New Version. London: Oberon, 2004.
  • - White Boy. London: Oberon, 2008.
  • Holdsworth, Nadine, and Mary Luckhurst. Eds. A Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama. Oxford, MA and Victoria: Blackwell, 2008.
  • King, Bruce. The Internationalization of English Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004.
  • Mackie, Erin. “Boys Will Be Boys: Masculinity, Criminality, and the Restoration Rake.” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 46.2 (2005): 129-149.
  • Matalene, H. W. “What Happens in The Country Wife.” Studies in English Literature 22 (1982): 395-411.
  • Novak, Maximillian E. “Margery Pinchwife’s ‘London Disease’: Restoration Comedy and the Libertine Offensive of the 1670s.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 10 (1977): 1-23.
  • Peacock, D. Keith. “Black British Drama and the Politics of Identity.” A Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama. Ed. Holdsworth and Luckhurst. Oxford, MA and Victoria: Blackwell, 2008:48-65.
  • Rosenthal, Laura J. “‘All injury’s forgot’: Restoration Sex Comedy and National Amnesia.” Comparative Drama 42.1 (2008): 7-28.
  • Schaffeld, Norbert. “‘I need some answers William’: Shakespeare and Post-Colonial Drama.” Shakespeare’s Legacy: The Appropriation of the Plays in Post-Colonial Drama, ed. Norbert Schaffeld. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2005: 1-14.
  • Thompson, Peggy. “The Limits of Parody in The Country Wife.” Studies in Philology 89.1 (1992): 100-115.
  • Turner, James Grantham. Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London: Sexuality, Politics, and Literary Culture, 1630-1685. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.
  • Weber, Harold. “The Restoration Rake in Wycherley and Congreve.” Philological Quarterly 61 (1982): 143-60.
  • Weber, Harold. “Horner and His ‘Women of Honour’: The Dinner Party in The Country Wife.” Modern Language Quarterly 43 (1982): 107-20.
  • Wycherley, William, The Country Wife (1675): a machine-readable transcript. Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey. 1997 [from William Wycherley. The Country Wife: A comedy, Acted at the Theatre Royal. London: Thomas Dring, 1675].
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APA Coussens, C. (2009). Updating the Restoration Libertine in Tanika Gupta’s Contemporary Adaptation of William Wycherley’s The Country Wife. Cankaya University Journal of Science and Engineering, 12(2), 61-74.
AMA Coussens C. Updating the Restoration Libertine in Tanika Gupta’s Contemporary Adaptation of William Wycherley’s The Country Wife. CUJSE. April 2009;12(2):61-74.
Chicago Coussens, Catherine. “Updating the Restoration Libertine in Tanika Gupta’s Contemporary Adaptation of William Wycherley’s The Country Wife”. Cankaya University Journal of Science and Engineering 12, no. 2 (April 2009): 61-74.
EndNote Coussens C (April 1, 2009) Updating the Restoration Libertine in Tanika Gupta’s Contemporary Adaptation of William Wycherley’s The Country Wife. Cankaya University Journal of Science and Engineering 12 2 61–74.
IEEE C. Coussens, “Updating the Restoration Libertine in Tanika Gupta’s Contemporary Adaptation of William Wycherley’s The Country Wife”, CUJSE, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 61–74, 2009.
ISNAD Coussens, Catherine. “Updating the Restoration Libertine in Tanika Gupta’s Contemporary Adaptation of William Wycherley’s The Country Wife”. Cankaya University Journal of Science and Engineering 12/2 (April 2009), 61-74.
JAMA Coussens C. Updating the Restoration Libertine in Tanika Gupta’s Contemporary Adaptation of William Wycherley’s The Country Wife. CUJSE. 2009;12:61–74.
MLA Coussens, Catherine. “Updating the Restoration Libertine in Tanika Gupta’s Contemporary Adaptation of William Wycherley’s The Country Wife”. Cankaya University Journal of Science and Engineering, vol. 12, no. 2, 2009, pp. 61-74.
Vancouver Coussens C. Updating the Restoration Libertine in Tanika Gupta’s Contemporary Adaptation of William Wycherley’s The Country Wife. CUJSE. 2009;12(2):61-74.