Restoration plays and players : an introduction /
Introducing readers to the key texts, theatrical practice and context of late seventeenth-century drama, David Roberts combines literary and theatrical approaches to show how Restoration plays were written, performed, received and printed. Structured according to the 'life cycle' of the dr...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Regime change theatre
- 2. The life cycle of the Restoration play
- 3. Playwrights
- 4. Companies
- 5. Actors
- 6. Playhouses
- 7. Audiences and critics
- 8. Texts and publishers
- 9. Revivals and adaptations
- Further reading
- Timeline.