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100 1 _aShirley, James,
_d1596-1666
245 1 4 _aThe Lady of Pleasure :
_bA Comedie, as It Was Acted by Her Majesties Servants, at the Private House in Drury Lane
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2014
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_of_Pleasure
500 _aRelease date is 2014-03-01
508 _aE-text prepared by David Starner, Moti Ben-Ari, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by HathiTrust Digital Library (http://www.hathitrust.org/digital_library)
520 _a"The Lady of Pleasure" by James Shirley is a Caroline era comedy of manners written in 1635. The play centers on Lady Bornwell, a wife devoted to courtly pleasures and extravagant spending, and her husband's attempts to reform her conduct. Through a three-level plot structure, Shirley explores themes of excess, moderation, and moral boundaries within aristocratic society. The play departs from typical Renaissance comedy formulas by featuring a philandering female protagonist and contrasting her behavior with the more virtuous young widow Celestina, creating a sophisticated examination of pleasure and propriety. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aComedy plays
653 _aEnglish drama -- 17th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45050
999 _c85889
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