The paper discusses the modern ways in which the libertine comedy of the Restoration period may be seen to stage a pitiless, though humorous, satire of the seemingly pioneer-like, but actually conservative, proposal of linguistic reform launched by J. Wilkins in his famous "Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language" (1668).

Arranging Res and Things in Restoration Times: Wilkins's Noah's Ark Sabotaged on the Comic Stage

ZINATO, Susanna
2010-01-01

Abstract

The paper discusses the modern ways in which the libertine comedy of the Restoration period may be seen to stage a pitiless, though humorous, satire of the seemingly pioneer-like, but actually conservative, proposal of linguistic reform launched by J. Wilkins in his famous "Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language" (1668).
2010
9788820753764
Restoration libertine comedy; Wilkins's 'linguistics'; modernity
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