Overview

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

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Author:   Susan J. Owen (University of Sheffield)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 17.30cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.835kg
ISBN:  

9781405176101

ISBN 10:   1405176105
Pages:   474
Publication Date:   15 February 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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 Täte 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

Reviews

The book will serve its audience very well, and those needing further guidance will profit from the list of further reading at the end of each essay. Highly recommended for academic libraries, the volume will be especially helpful to upper-division undergraduate and graduate students. Choice [...] the riches of Susan Owen's book are sufficient to ensure it a place on anyone's list of essential reading on Restoration Drama. Notes and Queries

Author Information

Susan J. Owen teaches in the Department of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. She is the author of Restoration Theatre and Crisis (1996) and Perspectives on Restoration Drama (forthcoming), as well as numerous articles and essays on Restoration drama, a piece on Andrew Marvell and a theoretical article, ‘Chaos Theory, Marxism and Literature; (new formations, 1996). She has also edited A Babel of Bottles: Drink, Drinkers and Drinking Places in Literature (2000).

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