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).
Id prodotto:
60824
Handle IRIS:
11562/353519
depositato il:
28 marzo 2012
ultima modifica:
23 febbraio 2023
Citazione bibliografica:
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