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A companion to Restoration drama /

0631219234

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A companion to Restoration drama /

[Book]

edited by Susan J. Owen

xvi, 456 pages ;

26 cm

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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

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English drama-- Restoration, 1660-1700-- History and criticism, Handbooks, manuals, etc

Théâtre anglais - 1660-1700 (Restauration) - Histoire et critique - Guides, manuels, etc

Owen, Susan J

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