Лучшие книги Уильяма Конгрива

"Мемуары женщины для утех", более известные как "Фанни Хилл", - одна из самых скандальных книг в истории английской литературы, более ста лет издававшаяся нелегально.
Это история о юной девушке, которая отправилась в столицу на заработки и угодила в фешенебельный лондонский бордель, где не без удовольствия проводила время, пока, разумеется, не обрела настоящую любовь. Задорный и возмутительно откровенный по меркам XVIII века роман - для тех, кто чувствует тонкую грань между эротикой и порнографией.
В издание также включены пьесы английского комедиографа и поэта Уильяма Конгрива, остроумно и талантливо живописавшего порочные нравы аристократии, развлекая без поучений.

Конгрив творил на рубеже веков (XVII - XVIII), в эпоху переломную, сложную, формирующую новые понятия, мораль и эстетические нормы.
Комедии Конгрива, произведения подлинно талантливые и яркие, созданные едким насмешником над нравами века, отразили свое время, свою эпоху.
В сборник вошли комедии "Старый холостяк", "Двойная игра", "Любовь за любовь" и "Так поступают в свете".
Издание подготовили: М.А.Донской, В.П.Мелкова, Р.Н.Померанцева, И.В.Ступников.
Автор статьи "Уильям Конгрив и его комедии" И.В.Ступников.

Конгрив творил на рубеже веков (XVII–XVIII), в эпоху переломную, сложную, формирующую новые понятия, мораль и эстетические нормы.
Комедии Конгрива, произведения подлинно талантливые и яркие, созданные едким насмешником над нравами века, отразили свое время, свою эпоху. Перевод Р. П. Померанцевой; стихи в переводе Ю. Б. Корнеева
Комментарии И. В. Ступникова.

Комедия в пяти действиях

William Congreve (1670-1729) was an English playwright and poet. He wrote some of the most popular English plays of the Restoration period of the late 17th century. By the age of thirty, he had written four comedies, including Love for Love (premiered 1695) and The Way of the World (premiered 1700), and one tragedy, The Mourning Bride (1697). After writing five plays from his first in 1693 until 1700, he produced no more as public tastes turned against the sort of highbrow sexual comedy of manners in which he specialized. He withdrew from the theatre and lived the rest of his life on residuals from his early work. His output from 1700 was restricted to the occasional poem and some translation (notably Molière's Monsieur de Pourceaugnac). Other works include The Double- Dealer and Incognita; or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd.

After the restoration of King Charles II to the British throne in 1660, dramatists experienced new freedom in an age that broke from the strict morality of puritan rule and in which elegance and wit became the chief virtues. Irreverent, licentious and cynical, the three plays collected here hold up a mirror to this dazzling era and satirize the gulf between appearances and reality. In Etherege's The Man of Mode (1676), the womanizing Dorimant meets his match when he falls in love with the unpretentious Harriet, while Wycherley's The Country Wife (c. 1675) depicts the rakish Horner who fakes impotence to fool trusting husbands into giving him easy access to their wives. And in Congreve's Love for Love (1695), the extravagant Valentine can only win his beloved Angelica if he loses his inheritance.

William Congreve (1670-1729) was an English playwright and poet. He wrote some of the most popular English plays of the Restoration period of the late 17th century. By the age of thirty, he had written four comedies, including Love for Love (premiered 1695) and The Way of the World (premiered 1700), and one tragedy, The Mourning Bride (1697). After writing five plays from his first in 1693 until 1700, he produced no more as public tastes turned against the sort of highbrow sexual comedy of manners in which he specialized. He withdrew from the theatre and lived the rest of his life on residuals from his early work. His output from 1700 was restricted to the occasional poem and some translation (notably Molière's Monsieur de Pourceaugnac). Other works include The Double- Dealer and Incognita; or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd.

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