A companion to Restoration drama /
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| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. :
Blackwell Publishers,
2001.
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. The Drama in Context: The post-1660 theatres as performance spaces / Edward A. Langhans
- Restoration dramatic theory and criticism / Paul D. Cannan
- Theatrical regulation during the Restoration period / Matthew J. Kinservik
- Libertinism and sexuality / Maximillian E. Novak
- The Restoration actress / Deborah Payne Fisk
- Masculinity in Restoration drama / Laura J. Rosenthal
- Images of monarchy on the Restoration stage / Jessica Munns
- Restoration drama and politics : an overview / Susan J. Owen
- Restoration drama and social class / Aparna Dharwadker
- Race, performance, and the silenced Prince of Angola / Mita Choudhury
- Restoration drama after the Restoration : the critics, the repertory, and the canon / Brian Corman.
- Part II. Kinds of Drama: Heroic drama and tragicomedy / Derek Hughes
- Restoration comedy / J. Douglas Canfield
- Tragedy and varieties of serious drama / Jean I. Marsden
- London theatre music, 1660-1719 / Todd S. Gilman
- Shakespeare and other adaptations / Sandra Clark
- Rakes, wives, and merchants : shifts from the satirical to the sentimental / Kirk Combe.
- Part III. Dramatists: William Davenant and John Dryden / Richard Kroll
- 'Still on the criminal's side, against the innocent' : Etherege, Wycherley and the ironies of wit / Robert Markley
- 'Who vices dare explode' : Thomas Shadwell, Thomas Durfey and didactic drama of the Restoration / Christopher Wheatley
- Otway, Lee and the Restoration history play / Paulina Kewes
- Elkanah Settle, John Crowne and Nahum Tate / Don-John Dugas
- Two female playwrights of the Restoration : Aphra Behn and Susanna Centlivre / Cynthia Lowenthal
- William Congreve and Thomas Southerne / Miriam Handley
- Sir John Vanbrugh and George Farquhar in the post-Restoration age / John Bull.