William Mountfort’s "Greenwich Park" (1691) and “the Change” in Restoration Comedy
- Autores: Jesús Correa Sánchez
- Localización: Taking stock to look ahead: celebrating forty years of English studies in Spain / coord. por María Ferrández San Miguel, Claus Peter Neumann, 2018, ISBN 978-84-16723-51-5, págs. 57-63
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Starting in the last years of the 1680s, Restoration comedy evolved from the distinguishing “hard” style prevalent in the 1670s to a more restrained, exemplary comic form: this evolution has been called “the change” in Restoration comedy. The present paper analyses William Mountfort’s Greenwich Park (1691) as an illustrative example of that literary evolution and as a transitional piece where elements of the two prevailing dramatic modes of the 1690s became successfully mixed. In its conclusion, this study aims to prove that Greenwich Park articulates processes of evolution and transition on several, interrelated levels: first, in its literary style, as has been mentioned above; second, in the moral values endorsed by the play; and finally, in the physical relocation of the play’s setting from the West to the East End of London.
