Drama & theatre · 1677
Marriage à la mode
€2,200
One copy available · ships from the Netherlands within two working days
- First published
- 1673
- This copy printed
- 1677
- Language
- English
- Binding
- Full leather
- Condition
- Good — Honest wear and some foxing, sound and complete.
- Pages
- 85
About this work
Half comic and half serious, 'Marriage A-la-Mode' is a spirited study of the trials and passions of love and marriage, a blend of satire and true romance. The play is set in the Sicilian court, and consists of a comic plot written in prose, and a tragic plot written in verse. The comic plot wittily explores the fluttering courtly mode of romance. The serious plot, by contrast, offers a timeless understanding of love and marriage as deeply intertwined, and of love as springing from country innocence and honour, and not from the social intriguing of shallow courtiers.
