TY - BOOK AU - Basma Abdelhamid Abdelaziz AU - Amal Mazhar , TI - Cultural and dramatic affinities between restoration comedy and oscar wilde's plays : : A comparative study / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Basma Abdelhamid Abdelaziz , KW - Oscar Wilde KW - William congreve KW - William wycherley N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Arts - Department of English; Issued also as CD N2 - The thesis focuses on the cultural and dramatic affinities between oscar Wilde's plays and the plays of restoration comedy. The thesis attempts to prove that the manner in which Wilde reads the restoration comedies is a sort of parody though it seems a borrowing or an adaptation. It examines the different aspects of the plays under study semiotically and intertextually UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -