A Companion to Restoration Drama 1st Edition by Susan Owen 1405176105 9781405176101

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ISBN 10: 1405176105 

ISBN 13: 9781405176101

Author: Susan J. Owen

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:

PART I The Drama in Context

1 The Post-1660 Theatres as Performance Spaces
Edward A. Langhans

2 Restoration Dramatic Theory and Criticism
Paul D. Cannan

3 Theatrical Regulation during the Restoration Period
Matthew J. Kinservik

4 Libertinism and Sexuality
Maximillian E. Novak

5 The Restoration Actress
Deborah Payne Fisk

6 Masculinity in Restoration Drama
Laura J. Rosenthal

7 Images of Monarchy on the Restoration Stage
Jessica Munns

8 Restoration Drama and Politics: An Overview
Susan J. Owen

9 Restoration Drama and Social Class
Aparna Dharwadker

10 Race, Performance and the Silenced Prince of Angola
Mita Choudhury

11 Restoration Drama after the Restoration: The Critics, the Repertory and the Canon
Brian Corman

PART II Kinds of Drama

12 Heroic Drama and Tragicomedy
Derek Hughes

13 Restoration Comedy
J. Douglas Canfield

14 Tragedy and Varieties of Serious Drama
Jean I. Marsden

15 London Theatre Music, 1660–1719
Todd S. Gilman

16 Shakespeare and Other Adaptations
Sandra Clark

17 Rakes, Wives and Merchants: Shifts from the Satirical to the Sentimental
Kirk Combe

PART III Dramatists

18 William Davenant and John Dryden
Richard Kroll

19 ‘Still on the Criminal’s Side, against the Innocent’: Etherege, Wycherley and the Ironies of Wit
Robert Markley

20 ‘Who Vices Dare Explode’: Thomas Shadwell, Thomas Durfey and Didactic Drama of the Restoration
Christopher J. Wheatley

21 Otway, Lee and the Restoration History Play
Paulina Kewes

22 Elkanah Settle, John Crowne and Nahum Täte
Don-John Dugas

23 Two Female Playwrights of the Restoration: Aphra Behn and Susanna Centlivre
Cynthia Lowenthal

24 William Congreve and Thomas Southerne
Miriam Handley

25 Sir John Vanbrugh and George Farquhar in the Post-Restoration Age
John Bull

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