Appearance and Reality in Four Comedies of Shakespeare and Sycherley
Abstract
The general purpose of this paper is to understand the
material in the comedies of these two playwrights within the
contexts in which they were written. My approach is to take a theme as one perspective to relate the plays contents to
the corresponding age.
Us1ng this approach, I hope to question the Restoration
criticism which ignores the age in which these plays were
written and passes judgment on them from within the contexts
of later ages.