The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre
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- Editor: Deborah Payne Fisk, American University, Washington DC
- Date Published: May 2000
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521588126
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This rich and varied portrait of drama from 1660 to 1714 provides students with essential information about playwrights, staging and genres in their social and political context. The theater that followed the Restoration of Charles II is revealed in all of its tumult, energy and conflict. Contributors pay attention to major and minor playwrights, the first professional female dramatists, the performance aspects of the drama and the main dramatic genres and themes.
Read more- Covers aspects of performance as well as dramatic literature
- Historical and cultural contexts are discussed
- Reference features: includes brief biographies of dramatists as well as chronology and bibliography
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- Date Published: May 2000
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521588126
- length: 324 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 153 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.51kg
- contains: 13 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Chronology
1. The theatre Edward A. Langhans
2. The performance Joseph Roach
3. Adaptations and revivals Michael Dobson
4. Comedy Brian Corman
5. Tragedy Christopher J. Wheatley
6. Tragicomedy Nancy Klein Maguire
7. Farce Peter Holland
8. Restoration and settlement:
1660 and 1688 Derek Hughes
9. Change, scepticism and uncertainty Jessica Munns
10. Drama and political crisis Susan J. Owens
11. Spectacle, horror and pathos Jean Marsden
12. Gender, sexuality and marriage Pat Gill
13. Playwright versus priest Michael Cordner
14. The canon and its critics Robert Markley
Biographies and selected bibliography
Index.
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