A companion to Restoration drama

Author(s)

• Owen, Susan J.

Bibliographic Information

A companion to Restoration drama

edited by Susan J. Owen

（Blackwell companions to literature and culture, 12）

Blackwell Publishers, 2001

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This Companion illustrates the vitality and diversity of dramatic work 1660 to 1710. Twenty-five essays by leading scholars in the field bring together the best recent insights into the full range of dramatic practice and innovation at the time. Introduces readers to the recent boom in scholarship that has revitalised Restoration drama Explores historical and cultural contexts, genres of Restoration drama, and key dramatists, among them Dryden and Behn

Table of Contents

About the Contributors viii Preface and Acknowledgements xii PART I The Drama in Context 1 1 The Post-1660 Theatres as Performance Spaces 3 Edward A.. Langhans 2 Restoration Dramatic Theory and Criticism 19 Paul D. Cannan 3 Theatrical Regulation during the Restoration Period 36 Matthew J. Kinservik 4 Libertinism and Sexuality 53 Maximillian E. Novak 5 The Restoration Actress 69 Deborah Payne Fisk 6 Masculinity in Restoration Drama 92 Laura J. Rosenthal 7 Images of Monarchy on the Restoration Stage 109 Jessica Munns 8 Restoration Drama and Politics: An Overview 126 Susan J. Owen 9 Restoration Drama and Social Class 140 Aparna Dharwadker 10 Race, Performance and the Silenced Prince of Angola 161 Mita Choudhury 11 Restoration Drama after the Restoration: The Critics, the Repertory and the Canon 177 Brian Corman PART II Kinds of Drama 193 12 Heroic Drama and Tragicomedy 195 Derek Hughes 13 Restoration Comedy 211 J. Douglas Canfield 14 Tragedy and Varieties of Serious Drama 228 Jean I. Marsden 15 London Theatre Music, 1660-1719 243 Todd S. Gilman 16 Shakespeare and Other Adaptations 274 Sandra Clark 17 Rakes, Wives and Merchants: Shifts from the Satirical to the Sentimental 291 Kirk Combe PART III Dramatists 309 18 William Davenant and John Dryden 311 Richard Kroll 19 'Still on the Criminal's Side, against the Innocent': Etherege, Wycherley and the Ironies of Wit 326 Robert Markley 20 'Who Vices Dare Explode': Thomas Shadwell, Thomas Durfey and Didactic Drama of the Restoration 340 Christopher J. Wheatley 21 Otway, Lee and the Restoration History Play 355 Paulina Kewes 22 Elkanah Settle, John Crowne and Nahum Tate 378 Don-John Dugas 23 Two Female Playwrights of the Restoration: Aphra Behn and Susanna Centlivre 396 Cynthia Lowenthal 24 William Congreve and Thomas Southerne 412 Miriam Handley 25 Sir John Vanbrugh and George Farquhar in the Post-Restoration Age 429 John Bull Index 446

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Details

• NCID: BA54589015
• ISBN:
  • 0631219234
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford ; Malden, MA
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 456 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English drama -- Restoration, 1660-1700 -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA33407255