The Way of the World
One of the greatest of all Restoration comedies, this knowing comedy of manners depicts the scheming of a nest of shallow, deceitful aristocrats to prevent two lovers from marrying. The play abounds with felicitous phrasing, delicious verbal battles of the sexes and a depth of feeling and...
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One of the greatest of all Restoration comedies, this knowing comedy of manners depicts the scheming of a nest of shallow, deceitful aristocrats to prevent two lovers from marrying. The play abounds with felicitous phrasing, delicious verbal battles of the sexes and a depth of feeling and sensitivity.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780486277875 (0486277879)
Publish date: January 31st 1994
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 96
Edition language: English
Perhaps this is better if you actually watch the play, but reading it... It is witty, but the plot is too convoluted and the characters' names don't help when it comes to keeping who is who clear, much less who is doing what (or usually whom).
*You can read this review at my website too.*Let me be honest. When I had started reading the book, it seemed so DAAAMN confusing! I mean all the characters seem to have the same kind of surname! I mean, how am I not supposed to get confused between Mirabell and Millamant? But once I had started to ...
Read for exams. Millamant and Mirabel.
It took me making my own relationships chart, with lots of arrows, to get a handle on the characters, but finally I was satisfied that I "got it." I didn't exactly like it, but it was better than OK.
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