The paper discusses the modern ways in which the libertine comedy of the Restoration period may be seen to stage a pitiless, though humorous, satire of the seemingly pioneer-like, but actually conservative, proposal of linguistic reform launched by J. Wilkins in his famous "Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language" (1668).
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60824
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11562/353519
Deposited On:
March 28, 2012
Last Modified:
February 23, 2023
Bibliographic citation:
Zinato, Susanna,
Arranging Res and Things in Restoration Times: Wilkins's Noah's Ark Sabotaged on the Comic StageRehearsals of the Modern: experience and experiment in Restoration drama
, ZINATO SUSANNA
, Liguori Editore
, 2010
, pp. 35-48